On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dan Liston wrote:
> I have looked at mailman too, but six months ago, there still was no support
> for virtual hosting of mailing lists. On the other hand, I "hate" web based
> gui tools, and could not find command line or direct file manipulation for
> mailman. To each their own.
>
> Dan Liston
>
> PS. If you are interested in MJ2, I recall seeing URLs for daily snapshots
> in the workers list.
ftp://ftp.hub.org/pub/Majordomo2
>
> 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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