Jon Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course not. Just a simple GUI front end for installing and setting > up a Mailman site, that would incorporate expert knowledge about > various environments so that the user doesn't have to struggle with > manually editing configuration files, finding needed program files, > launching web servers and mailman daemons, establishing interfaces > with the MTA, etc. Same kind of thing we do with all kinds of popular > apps. But if you're running Suse 9.1 on a 400 MHz Pentium III with > only 128MG of RAM, you don't want to run unnecessary background > processes, like a web server, when all it is needed for is to set up > a list locally. Remotely, sure. Using a web browser for that for a > short time makes sense. But a lot of people have to do things on old, > underpowered laptops.
Quite frankly, "old underpowered laptops" shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). > If Linux is going to displace MS Windows, major apps are going to > have to enable users to use their tools without ever having to see > the CLI. Point and click. Windows is a much bigger background app than apache... -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes ------------------------------------------------------ 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/