Fwd'ing as it appears that Jill's post didn't arrive @ list-managers.
Interesting survey with some excellent comments, but the sample size
was too low to gather concensus, IMO. But thankfully someone has gone
beyond product proselytizing; this is the first contempory review of
list mgmt sw I've found so far - the rest of what you online are years
out-of-date.
The survey idea is a good one. We have a survey srver at work and
a more detailed and company-centric version is now in the works.
Thanks for sharing Jill.
- michael
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: any recent reviews/roundups of list management sw
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:48:48 -0600
From: Jill B Gemmill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Coxe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>
Hi - It so happens that the Internet2 Middleware-enabled Mailing List
working group has just completed a survey of university list
administrators. It turns out that about 50% of them are looking for
mailing list software that is more functional than what they are
currently using. At least one of the respondents was a current listproc
user.
The survey and results can be found here:
http://middleware.internet2.edu/mlist/#Docs
You will find what people like and don't like about Mailman, Sympa,
ListProc, Majordomo, etc. I will attempt to post this reply to
list-managers but it will probably bounce - feel free to forward this
information to that list if you like.
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Jill Gemmill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
205-975-2850
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Michael Coxe
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: any recent reviews/roundups of list management sw
Hi all,
We've been running Listproc for a number of years now and
it's time to migrate to something maintained & updated.
Our use is typical for a mid-size company: about 300
lists, many low-volume alias replacements, maybe 100 with
serious volume, a need for a range of subscription,
posting & access controls depending on need, web access
for list-owner management, archiving, web access to
archives - both viewing & searching, mail2news/news2mail,
RSS would be nice. We also dynamically build subscriber
lists from LDAP datao but that's easily scripted.
Privately I've run a Majordomo 2 server but would prefer
to look at other products.
What's hot? Mailman of course. What about Sympa? Any
others worth serious consideration. Any strong opinions?
No interest in Listserv and Lyris seems targeted at marketeers.
I guess Exchange could be considered a list manager...
But why buy with several excellent opon source options.
