Phil Stracchino writes: > On 2020-02-28 05:44, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > str in Python 1, and the history of Mailman as an MLM for an American > > rock band (who needs no steekin' accents, we just hammer and bend the > > strings!) > > This is clearly a story I didn't know. :) And now I'm curious... John Viega was a friend of somebody in the Dave Matthews Band, maybe Matthews himself. In the mid-90s, they needed a mailing list to tell people where they were playing, John didn't like any of the MLMs available, so he wrote Mailman. For more info, you'd have to chase down John or Barry Warsaw, I think. Maybe Mark knows more. Barry wrote a chapter on Mailman in "The Architecture of Open Source Applications", there is some historical stuff in there. And https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=dave+matthews+band+GNU+Mailman brings up a bunch of relevant-looking links. Thanks for asking, I may have to follow some of those myself! Steve P.S. It is a great story, and a great advert for free/open source software! ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
