On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Ross Rader wrote:
> One of our larger motivations was to standardize on a single tool over
> here.

Does this mailing list exist *for Tucows* or *for the subscribers* ?

I always thought the latter.

>  Right now were using three or four different discussion management
> tools - majordomo, lyris, phorum and fourth one that eludes me.
> Majordomo has sucked since we first installed it, Lyris is way better 
> at
> managing mass mailings than it is at managing discussions (especially
> the way we have it configured) and the fourth one is basically EOL from
> what I understand.

Mailman. Very nice. Very popular. Open source, extensible, you name it.

> Anyone using RSS to keep up on the ebb and flow will have a local cache
> as well as anyone that turns on email notifications via their phorum
> profile.

Again -- assumes that someone wants to use some other tool to read 
their messages... ALSO, it means that if you want to REPLY/PARTICIPATE, 
you'll have to still jump through all sorts of web-based hurdles.

Sorry, still not seeing the "value add" here, but seeing significant 
value-decrease.

D

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