At 01:22 PM 2/20/01, Rachel Blackman wrote:
>don't take misinformation personally, just post a correction
No corrections, how about a few additions?
>MAJORDOMO 2.x
>Written in Perl and not yet released widely, Mj2 is much more powerful.
Absolutely.
BTW, the current author has NO PLANS to release the software.
>It allows an amazing amount of per-user and per-list configuration control.
And the way in which you configure it is still changing.
There is no longer compatibility with existing installations,
so I've frozen my Mj2 server (no more upgrades). Loading a
software upgrade can result (has for me) in non-functioning
lists. It's alpha, eh?
>I have never played with Mj2, but I understand it's a vast
>improvement over the original. :)
I think so. On the other hand, the original author is now in
the back seat, and a new person has taken over. This was not
done by consensus, it was done by the new person putting up
his own CVS tree and announcing that he intended to do his own
thing regardless of what others did. The original author choose
to support the new guy instead of having two competing versions.
For a time, NO ONE was working on Mj2, so having someone take
over is preferable to simply letting it die.
I like Mj2. I use Mj2. I contributed huge amounts of my time
to documentation for Mj2, some of which was left out of the
distribution. I fear for its future, however.
There is only one contributor, and he does what he wants without
consulting the small user community. My few code contributions
were all rejected. New features are sometimes contorted and illogical,
requiring special interactions between sets of configuration options...
instead of a clean setup that can be done correctly without consulting
the author for an example. You have to LEARN the software, not just
browse a few installation instructions.
>LISTSERV
>likes to run with its own SMTP server and support software
It also communicates with the mother ship! I once posted too
many messages in parallel on a private server. The server owner
saw no harm and took no action, but LSoft (the mother ship)
sent me a message saying that my account had been disabled
on all listserv lists worldwide for five days. The server's
listmaster confirmed that there was nothing he could do to
fix this, and that LSoft will not release their algorithms
for disabling spammers. Also, unless you take steps to stop
it, your entire list configuration will magically appear on
LSoft's website, complete with the owner's email address.
If you like spyware, you'll love listserv. Given that it has
hooks to inform LSoft about who is posting, including how often
on how many lists, I keep wondering what else (if anything) it
phones home about.
Thanks for compiling the features list!
SRE
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