Hi, On Friday, February 17, 2006 at 15:06:09, houghi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > > > 1. The mailing-lists run on obsolete software (ezmlm). Mailman is much > > > more featureful and user-friendly. > > > > Heh. Did you ever administer a mailinglist with more then 10 users? Did > > you ever administer a mailinglist server with more then 2 mailinglists? > > :) > > Yet he has a point. Mailman has a nice webinterface to subscribe, > unsubscribe and put it on hold when you are on a holiday.
Which makes little sense at all. You put your email address into the webinterface to get a confirmation request over mail. Why anyone would use a webinterface to deal with mailinglists anyway is beyond me. > Especialy that last one can be very handy on busy mailinglists. Yes, > this can be done with sending mails. A webinterface however is more > user-friendly. A webinterface like this can be implemented by simple input boxes. Like we did here http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/ But thats purely optional for the little amount of mailinglist users that want to have a webinterface. > Oh and others HAVE used mailman on more then one list with more then > 10 users. I believe you must be familiar with KDE: > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo Sure. Sourceforge as well. Now go talk to them how heavily they had to hack mailman to get a service as good as qmail+ezmlm/postfix+mlmmj can provide :) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
