Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-05-05 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> I think you'llhave to stick to "several millions", this is MM> open source software, and Barry doesn't receive per user MM> license fees, so he can't count them either :-) You haven't balanced your checkbook in a while then,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-15 Thread Terri Oda
At 08:50 PM 14/04/02 -0700, you wrote: > You are correct, majordomo isn't all that bad, it's just rather inefficient. It wasn't bad at all... except that time when one of my list admins went and subscribed majordomo to one of its own reply-to-list lists. So someone sent somethign to the list,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:43:38 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you'llhave to stick to "several millions", this is open source > software, and Barry doesn't receive per user license fees, so he can't > count them either :-) There's also a high collision rate between lists an

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:30:53PM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:58:28PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Either mailman or majordomo, hard to say. > > Majordomo had a big installed base, but it's losing grounds quickly > > (it was far from being the best, but it was the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-14 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:58:28PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Either mailman or majordomo, hard to say. > Majordomo had a big installed base, but it's losing grounds quickly > (it was far from being the best, but it was the most popular) For a long time it was the top of the heap among a large v

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:47:31PM -0700, Ellen Spertus wrote: > Do we know what the most popular open-source mlm is? My guess would be > Mailman, but that's just off the top of my head. Either mailman or majordomo, hard to say. Majordomo had a big installed base, but it's losing grounds quick

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-14 Thread Ellen Spertus
Do we know what the most popular open-source mlm is? My guess would be Mailman, but that's just off the top of my head. I already got a flame for working on Mailman, rather than ezmlm, because of the perceived restrictiveness of the GPL. Ellen _

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:36:27PM -0700, Ellen Spertus wrote: > Any ballpark estimates on the number of Mailman subscribers > globally? Given that the FAQ mentions a list with 147,000 users, it seems > safe to say that there are millions of Mailman users. What do you think? Yes, there are s

[Mailman-Developers] Number of Mailman users?

2002-04-14 Thread Ellen Spertus
Any ballpark estimates on the number of Mailman subscribers globally? Given that the FAQ mentions a list with 147,000 users, it seems safe to say that there are millions of Mailman users. What do you think? I'd like a number for a grant report I'm writing. Ellen _