Subject: Re: Change lists to mailman?
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 18:35:38 CDT
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
> So, in light of these disadvantages, I'd like to move to GNU Mailman.
> Mailman is the software used by most free software projects, and
> provides a way to subscribe and unsubscribe over the web.
>
> Does anyone have any objections to moving to mailman? Since it has no
> traffic, abisource-announce is being moved later today. My question
> merely relates to abiword-dev and abiword-user.
I'm the usual dissenter....
Mailman sucks. It's interpreted just like majordomo, and is slow. It
sends out _PLAINTEXT_ password in monthly spams. You need to have and
remember a password. I really do not like mailman.
Then again, I'm a biased person since I'm writing my own mailing list
manager in C...
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