i Ed, I agree with most of your views. (i) Like you, I'm shifting over from Majordomo. While I find Mailman great (and affordable, important for us in a Third World country like India), I wish I could manage more tasks via email. With bandwidth being costly and slow here, one has to wait maybe upto a day or two to visit the web from a fast cybercafe to carry out some admin tasks.
(ii) You raised an important point: maybe Mailman would be more useful if it had a "block all attachments" option. This would avoid virus... we still have Windows-based readers on our lists ;-) (iii) Some other features that would mail Mailman great (a) option for listmembers to share files, have online voice chats and share a group calendar -- like yahoogroups.com (b) easy shiftover from one server to another, when required (c) a good book that explains Mailman... maybe an independent author could be tempted into doing this. Where I disagree is with your slight impatience. C'mon guys, this is volunteer work. I'm grateful for what I've already got... (though fishing for more!). FN PS: Is there a listing somewhere of lists that run on Mailman? -- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India 832.409490 / 409783 BYTESFORALL www.bytesforall.org * GNU-LINUX http://linuxinindia.pitas.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Saligao Goa India Writing with a difference... on what makes *the* difference ---------------Ed Howard commented earlier:----------------------- I sent the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but nobody commented :-) I am new to Mailman, which I like on the whole, having used Majordomo, and have been reading this mailing list (as a digest), which is really useful (but see 3) thank you. 1. I would like e-mail commands to do my admindb approvals. Is there any way? (not the user requests, I know about that). 2. In a moderated list posting, how can I tell if the messages (perhaps with an attachment or embedded content) is virus free? The only way I can think of is to have each message sent to my address for checking when it arrives at the mailing list server, which does not check for viruses. 3. Our private list members are people we know and converting from Majordomo to Mailman 2.0.8 I have to keep a separate record of the name and e-mail. Any workarounds to capture this info? I am told version 2.1 is addressing this but I wonder how long will I have to wait for that? Edward Howard ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
