What about extending MailMan in new directions? One of the things
that worked well for MailMan, I think, was the way that it maintained
state information about the message - who had read what, who had
forwarded or terminated. I was thinking about generalizing the
capability so that the message
For what its worth, a little MailMan history:
I worked with Jon Postel of ISI in Marina Del Ray when I was designing
the original MailMan 1982-1983. He was one of the designers of SMTP
and the standard for mail names [EMAIL PROTECTED] formats. I didn't
have Internet access at the time, but I
Arden,
I think more than a forum for dialog is necessary... for VA and DoD
to share anything would involve someone losing some bureaucratic turf.
Unfortunately, this protection-of-turf instinct is more important
than cost savings, patient safety, effectiveness of systems, or even
the mission of
Has anyone looked at Python? It looks like a nearest neighbor to
MUMPS, with lots of similarities. I has an interesting dictionary
capability, handles strings well, and a very strong object model.
What about embedding M in Python?
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:41:10 -0800 (PST), Jim Self [EMAIL
