On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:15:27AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Every so often I consider mailing list software and then end up using Yahoo 
> Groups with its ease of use but adverts inserted into the mail.

Yahoo Groups's archives are an appalling adfest, IMO. So much so that it
interferes with reading them. Not only that yahoo have a rather dodgy
privacy policy which has attracted a lot of criticism (essentially they
decided to reset everyone's account into "spam me, please" mode).

> My gut feeling is to use a perl based system - such as (I think) majordomo. 
> However I don't even thing that is what this mailing list uses does it?

majordomo is old & crufty & not maintained. It also doesn't have an
integrated archive, nor web-based admin. Which may or may not matter to
you...

I'd strongly recommend mailman: http://www.list.org/ although ezmlm may
be worth a look too: http://www.ezmlm.org/ or http://www.uk.ezmlm.org/
(which was worse than the US East Coast site; go figger.) You need qmail
for ezmlm, apparently: ``Ezmlm and ezmlm-idx cannot run without qmail properly
installed on the server where ezmlm is to be installed.''

Paul

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