I got an error at that address. Could you double check it please?
Thanks!
Sharon
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On 9/28/00, at 4:44 PM, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>Note that Mj2 is more then just 'well on its way' ... I've been using it
>productive for >6 months now and love it ... Jason et al haven't put out
>any formal releases only because there is soooooo much they are wanting to
>do that they are, I swear, trying to do it all and won't release until
>then :)
>
>If you want a copy of Mj2, go to http://www.hub.org/pub/Majordomo2, where
>nightly snapshots are being genrated ... the feature set makes Majordomo
>v1 look pale in comparison ...
>
>On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Mills CP wrote:
>
>> Having only just started out trying to use majordomo, I probably don't share
>> the same level of loyalty as some users on this list. However, I feel I need
>> to question the future of majordomo. I myself have had problems getting
>> majordomo to work, whether this was due to a conflict or a bug in either my
>> OS or version of perl I do not know, but when mj stripped and processed the
>> headers, the entire message was stripped as well meaning that no valid
>> commands were found.
>>
>> I managed to fix this to a fasion by completely rewritting the message
>> handling code to use the Mail::Internet modules available for Perl.
>>
>> I keep reading that version 2 is well on it's way, but refering to a book I
>> have that was published I think in '94, it seems that Majordomo v2 was on
>> it's way then too.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What I am trying to say, is that sure, mj seems like it is a good product,
>> and given the wide spread use of it, I have no doubt that it is (when you
>> can get it working), but unless it develops somewhat faster than it appears
>> to be at the moment, then other products, e.g. mailman are clearly going to
>> take the lead.
>>
>> So come on guys, get on with it. Make majordomo a product I, as a MLM
>> manager cannot afford to be without.
>>
>> P.S. Check out http://www.list.org/ for more information on mailman.
>>
>
>Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
>Systems Administrator @ hub.org
>primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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