Re: [ProgSoc] mailing list software

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:38:16PM +1100, Nigel Sheridan-Smith wrote:
> 
> I've been using mailman for quite a while (www.list.org) and it comes with
> Pipermail for web-based archives. All you need is a web server that can run

Progsoc currently uses majordomo for list management and uses MHonArc
to do the last few years of archiving. The main reason for choosing
MHonArc is that it properly handles MIME attachments and HTML.

It also has functions which make it relatively simple to handle modifying
history ^W^Wfixing up the archive. Last I looked, last year, pipermail
was similiar to hypermail and didn't do well at all with MIME.

> python as a CGI and its reasonably easy to install. Most of the management
> is done through web pages (except for actually creating/deleting lists,
> etc). However, it doesn't have very exceptional MIME support - MHonArc is

Being listadmin for a majordomo/mailmain and smartlist site means I can
give you a good comparision. One of the nicer things about mailman is
that everything is done via the web. 

One of the nicer things about majordomo is you can do everything (including
bounce approvals -- i.e. Wim could simply 'approve' bounced email rather
than forwarding it) via email. If you have to approve a lot of things on
a mailing list, majordomo would be the best to use atm.

> I've never used majordomo much before so I can't comment but I know that
> others have had trouble getting it installed properly.

It is relatively simple if you are having problems post them to the
list and perhaps I can help.

Anand
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