Subject: Re: Change lists to mailman?
From: Jesper Skov (jskov@zoftcorp.adsl.dk)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 10:00:36 CDT
>>>>> "Sam" == Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu> writes:
Sam> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 10:03:45AM +0200, Jesper Skov wrote:
>> >>>>> "Sam" == Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu> writes:
>>
Sam> Currently, our three email lists are run by majordomo. However,
Sam> majordomo has some problems.
>>
Sam> 1. It's non-free. 2. It sucks.
>>
Sam> So, in light of these disadvantages, I'd like to move to GNU
Sam> Mailman. Mailman is the software used by most free software
Sam> projects, and provides a way to subscribe and unsubscribe over
Sam> the web.
>>
Sam> Does anyone have any objections to moving to mailman? Since it
Sam> has no traffic, abisource-announce is being moved later today.
Sam> My question merely relates to abiword-dev and abiword-user.
>> I think we should switch *if* you can get the archives moved too.
Sam> I can get the archives moved. For examples of how it would look,
Sam> both the abiword-docs mailing list, and the abisource-announce
Sam> mailing list are now using mailman. Check them out at
Sam> http://www.abisource.com/mailman/listinfo
As username@tcd.ie (??) pointed out to me in private mail, it would be
_really_ nice if we could keep the file locations as is so google
searches will still work properly. That is, if the files get
moved. Alternatively, I guess, just leave a copy at the existing
location.
Jesper
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