At 20:13 17/02/2003, Cody Harris wrote:
Why not use Win 98 as a server platform on which to run Mailman?I do, and no, i have not. If i knew how, i would.At 01:03 PM 2/17/03, you wrote:>Heh, if anyone wants to, they can try to install Mailman on my Win32 box. I
>have, uh, never used Python so it'd be stupid for me to try. If anyone
>does, they should give the good folks at Mailman (developers) a hint that
>they should make a Win32 release of it. That is, if it works. It's an open
>market, and if someone wants to make an offer, e-mail me back at
><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. c a>.ca.
>heh, good luck anyone who tries.
>
>Cody
Why would anyone want to run mailman on a win32 platform? Or any other
server app, for that matter? It's like trying to move a house with a
volkswagen... yes, it's possible, but it doesn't make any sense.
Did you fix the holes in your server yet?
Quite simply because it is not a robust Operating System with any real pretensions to being even a modestly secure server platform. Win 98, 98SE and ME have never been proposed for such use, even by Microsoft, and for the good reasons that they are not suitable for it.
Expending effort on getting Mailman to run on Win 98 is a waste of effort. Win NT has no future but might have been an arguable case, Win 2k and XP also an arguable case.
But, if you've got modest Wintel hardware,the best way to exploit it is with Linux. For effectively nothing, you get a robust, secure server platform which will do more work under Linux that under a modern Micrososft OS.
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