At 12:40 16/06/98 -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 05:35:40PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>> But take a look at what's going on around majordomo, and you'll see
>> lots of neet tools coming around, because it IS open, available and
>> hackable. And if you want to take advantage of that stuff, you probably
>> ought to think about going where the action is.
>
>IMHO, it's the best tool available for the job as it stands, and in six
>months, it'll be *much* better. It's also free.
I've looked at a lot of list packages and I have to say that majordomo
1.94(.x) in pure end user functionality with no patching/code hacking
looses out significantly in certain areas to some of the commercial options
available and even with it comes up rather short.
That said I am (a) *sure* this is more to do with majordomo than the free
software issue and (b) the development of majordomo 2 is looking to prove
that by resolving the issue.
Free Software has a different dynamic which can make it *much* better than
commercial software in many (but not all) cases. It's not just features and
evolution - perversely it's also often about support. We use Exim as our
mail server on many machine. Apart from the fact that it beats the pants of
just about any commercial MTA - you won't believe the degree of support
we've got. I've mailed a bug report to the users mailing list and had a
source patch within 2 hours on more than one occasion - if I said that
about MS exchange you'd be waiting for a punch line.
Majordomo 1.x is the very end (probably further than it should have been)
of it's last legs but heah - guess what, majordomo 2 is a complete rewrite
that I think has the potential to easily match and exceed in many areas the
other mailing list solutions.
Manar
