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Subject: Re: The future of Majordomo
From: John W Baxter <jwblist @ olympus . net>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:27:58 -0700
To: Mills CP <C . P . Mills @ rmcs . cranfield . ac . uk>, "'majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com'" <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>, "'majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com'" <majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com>
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At 11:26 +0100 9/28/00, Mills CP wrote:
>
>A colleague told me about an open source program distributed under the GPL
>called mailman which is currently in version 2.0beta6 which offered all the
>functionality or majordomo plus more. I downloaded it with the idea of
>looking at it and installed it. I must say that it is IMHO far superior to
>mj. It includes automatic digesting and archiving and even provides a web
>based interface to the configuration and management functions and the
>archive which can be viewed in a number of different ways. I think I will
>now use mailman as my MLM.

Stay on the mailman mailing list for a while, and note that many people
have trouble getting it configured to work properly, problems with
duplicate messages (although b6 may have solved those) and other
difficulties.

Remarkably like this list.

We'll be at least trying mailman for some lists here, while--for a
while--leaving well enough alone with Majordomo for others.

   --John

-- 
John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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