From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia) To: Glenn Sieb Howdy!
[Prodos:] > >>Would anyone on this list care to offer a comparison? > >>Or, if you are an ex-YahooGroups user, say why you changed > >>to Mailman? Or, if you know of an already existing comparison > >>online somewhere, perhaps you could send me the URL. [Chris Barnes:] > >For pure mailing list capabilities, MM (and other "real mailing list > >managers" such as Lsoft's Listserv, majordomo, etc) have Yahoo groups > >beat hands down. > > > >* no advertising (some of which is of less than acceptable topics for > >lists my kids get!) > > > >* Better response time (depending on your connection) > > > > > >But if you are enamored with the extra features in yahoogroups such > as > >the calendar, file sharing, etc - you might be disappointed. None of > >these others have any of that. Just as well since I hate those > >things anyway... [Glenn:] > Yes--if you're looking for community-based mailing lists, MM will not > do... Will NOT do? Hmm ... okay. > I've toyed with writing something around MM to more emulate the > YahooGroups functionality that way, as A) I _was_ a user of those > features B) People I know who run groups on Yahoo, haven't taken me up > on my offer of hosting on my server, because MM *doesn't* offer > calendars, integrated web-posting, et cetera, that they actively > use.on Yahool. Okay. > Unfortunately, it's the old axiom: It's a Simple Matter of > Programming. Now to only find the _time_ to do that programming. :-/ Maybe a future version of Mailman will offer some of those functions. Thanks for your comments. =]:-) PRODOS http://prodos.com - Internet Radio "Discover the power. Of ideas!" ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
