Help build the new GNHLUG Internet server

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 09:36, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> It is a better mailinglist manager.

Fill in here the ways mailman is insufficient for our use or things 
that Majordomo would let us do that we can't.

> It suffers from not getting enough use
> compared to what Mailman was able to achieve with Red Hat having been 
> the
> promoter.

I remember when Mailman was new and we all jumped at the chance to get 
away from majordomo.  That's why Redhat included it.  I was just 
debugging a Majordomo setup for a client last week and bemoaned that 
they weren't on mailman, which I've found much easier to setup and 
customize.  For their setup Majordomo didn't offer any benefits, but 
maybe they exist for other requirements.

> I use it here on syslang for the dozen odd lists I run. My
> biggest list is about 800 people and it works really well.

FYI, mailman scales to about 10K per list.  After that 'python pickles' 
get in the way and it falls apart.  I've done some research lately for 
a client with a 120K customer mailing list and the solution seems to be 
to use the mysql backend to avoid python pickles.   You can also chain 
'umbrella lists' but that's somewhat of a hack.  Mailman 3 is also 
listed as a solution but that appears to be vapor, currently aimed at 
being a Zope personality.  My goodness.

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-Bill
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