On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> I'm thinking of upgrading my current list software - from majordomo to one
> of majordomo2, mailman, or sympa.
>
> Each of them seems to have some serious features above-and-beyond
> majordomo1, but I get the sense that each has its problems as well - I see
> lots of bugs go by on the mailman users list, and it seems like
> development is moving slowly on all three.
Of the three, I get the impression that Mailman's major strength is the
web interface, and Sympa's major strength is the localization. I've not
tracked Sympa development, so I don't know how fast or slow it is; I do
know that Mj2 development creeps along because the author is working
mostly solo.
> Can anybody offer some opinions as to the reliability, maturity, and
> longer-term viability of each. Are there any other packages I should be
> looking at?
Of the three, Mailman probably has the biggest support community at the
moment. Having not personally run lists under -any- of them (I've run
under Majordomo 1, Smartlist, LISTSERV, and now I just run Listar for
obvious reasons).
I'll seem biased, but I will at least offer up Listar for comparison, too.
:) The documentation is lacking (though being worked on), but development
is fairly active and we try to handle user requests fairly quickly. You
can find it at http://www.listar.org/ - I don't claim it's the perfect
MLM, or even the best one for everyone, but it does what _I_ needed in an
MLM (which is why I originally wrote it) and the developers are always
open to suggestions for what else it should do.
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