on 5/7/09 6:47 PM, alexan...@nautae.eti.br said:
How old is the Mailman project?
The first public mention of Mailman that I know of was at the 7th International Python Conference in November of 1998. See <http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html> and <http://myriadicity.net/Sundry/mailman_ip7.pdf>. There was also a talk given at the 12th LISA conference in December of 1998, see <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa98/technical.html> and <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa98/full_papers/viega/viega_html/viega.html>.
The official announcement of availability for version 1.0 was in July of 1999, see <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/1999-July/000004.html>.
Of course, development on Mailman preceded these dates by some time, as explained by Ken Manheimer at <http://myriadicity.net/Sundry/MyMailmanRole>.
So, it all depends on what you want to choose as the official birthdate for Mailman.
Is there any historical information? Where?
The WikiPedia page at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mailman> has some information and links to some other pages.
I'm not aware of any other page that tries to gather together any of the early history of Mailman.
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