On Thursday 28 December 2000 16:08, you wrote:
> The Brazilian MSX mailing list runs over Mailman for a year or
> two. It's a amazing mailing list manager. It has a lot of features
> (even newsgroup <- mailing list transfer), and it's full
> Web-configurable. We're using Mailman 2.0.
The Stack mailinglist admins made the decision to move to Mailman, I'm glad
to hear they've made a good choice.
> And Mailman can limit the maximum mail length to a little amount
> of kbytes. The MSXBR-L has a 16 Kb limit, so it can be used to avoid
> bigger attachments. I've got 2 or 3 copies of this virus in our list,
> but all of them Mailman had kept, in order to be analysed by myself.
The current list also has a length limit, but it's higher than 16K. It has
stopped other attachments in the past, but the virus was small enough to fit
under the limit.
> Mailman is great, sounds nice to know that MSX mailing list
> is migrating to a better, free and GPLed solution. =)
The Majordomo license is more restrictive than GPL, but I don't think that
was a problem in the way it was used by Stack. GPL was not mentioned as a
reason to move.
The admins gave better and easier configuration (using either a web interface
or mailed commands) as one reason, another is that compiled Python bytecode
puts less strain on the server than Majordomo's interpreted Perl.
Bye,
Maarten
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