On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:14:02AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Brandon Sussman writes:
> > I have had good luck so far with Dreamhost's Mailman support - they > > have some folks who seem to care and know Mailman fairly well. > That's interesting, considering that there was some hair-pulling over > on mailman-devel about possible problems with Dreamhost. (Totally > unsupported by facts, I'll add; the poster just wanted to justify a > hare-brained scheme with claims that his hosting service, which was a > birthday present or something, *might be* unreliable.) I used to work there and was somewhat involved with the early mailman implementations there.... I'll say a few things: 1) Virtual domains are (AFAIK) still supported with lists being named [EMAIL PROTECTED] - even if you alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something to it, you can't fully get rid of the slightly ugly addresses. That's mostly due to limitations of Mailman (at least at the time we implemented things, though there may be some creative ways to get this to work now). 2) Since Mailman is hosted on central machines, and isn't one install per account, there's no easy way to give users direct access to command line commands, though I think their support team will be pretty responsive for occasional or one-time requests to do stuff on users' behalf. 3) Since Mailman is a shared service, there's obviously a limit to the size of list that can reasonably be handled on this type of service, though there aren't any hard limits that I know of, and I believe some very large lists are being hosted here. 4) I will agree that they have some staff who know Mailman pretty well. I don't know who all is working on it now, but I do know that one of the founders, Dallas, has done a lot of work with the Mailman implementation there, and I believe at least one other developer they have there is also doing a good amount of work with supporting their Mailman installs. Overall, they've got a very smart bunch of people. 5) DH has grown a lot in the past 3-4 years, and definitely there are some technically-savvy folks who aren't always able to get the same level of support they used to get. That said, I think they are better than many / most hosts out there, and do have pretty good support for hosting Mailman lists. Whatever one can say about the reliabilty of their hosting services (and there are a range of opinions here), I think the Mailman service should be pretty robust and reliable. (Side note to the person who was posting about a non-profit - DH does have a 90 day guarantee and *free* hosting for non-profits with 501(c)(3) or tax exempt non-profit status, so maybe at least worth a try. Saying this as a former employee with no financial interest in the company.) w ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
