Why is this list using Majordomo?

Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Marc Perkel]

Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?

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Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Charles Cazabon]

Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote:
> Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?

First you say the Linux kernel is "laughable" and should copy Netware instead.
Now you say the (existing, working) list manager is no good, without saying
why.

Are you a troll?

Charles
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Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:27 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?

Because the list-admins decided that way.

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Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:

> Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?
>

Because the maintainer of the list invented it and it's better than
all the other clones.

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Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Matti Aarnio]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:19:29PM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?
> 
> Because the maintainer of the list invented it and it's better than
> all the other clones.

Sorry, none of us is Brent Chapman.   :-)
But Majordomo is better than any other in free/open software
then or since in my experience.

Part of VGERs performance success is ZMailer MTA, of which current
main author I am, and our Majordomo installation uses several optimized
auxiliary programs to speed things up so that MTA takes up large share
of processing load with least possible CPU or IO expenditure.

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> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson

  /Matti Aarnio

Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Matti Aarnio]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:27:11AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Date:	Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:27:11 -0700
> From:	Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
> To:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Why is this list using Majordomo?
> 
> Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?

  Have you ever tried to run a list with volumes like ours,
  and opennes (for posting) requirements like ours ?

  I have had some experience with those "more modern" beasts,
  and sure they are pretty with web-interfaces, but try to
  manage them thru that web-junk, when they have several
  thousand blocked junk messages to be discarded...

  We manage this thing with custom command-line utilities.
  In the early days there was no such a thing as "web", for
  example, and we really haven't seen anything so truly
  worthwhile in any new systems to warrant switching entire
  system over to them.  (And we have seen so much BAD in
  those eye-candy things that...)


  I sure may sound like "if it was good enough for your grandpa,
  it shall be good enough for you" -- but if one can't send email
  to the Majordomo (and manage to follow those basic instructions),
  perhaps they should not subscribe either...


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Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Joe Bob Spamtest]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?

Am I the only one that smells troll?

Re: Why is this list using Majordomo?

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Joe Bob Spamtest wrote:

> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman?
>
>
> Am I the only one that smells troll?


sniff sniff, I dunno, he is just making a point and I think It was 
already answered.

.Alejandro