Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:09:41 -0500 Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Password sync'ing (should be trivial) 2) Archives via email > (may be trivial, may not) 3) Duplicate emails (may not be > possible) > There are a lot of good things about Mailman, but #3 is a big > hurdle that won't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread coder
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:37:08 -0500 Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm finding that Mailman has some hangups that make it > undeseriable. As with any tool, there is a problem space it is attempting to serve, and there are tradeoffs in its approach to that problem space. I don't believ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > Can't you have the umbrella list sync its list of users from all the sub > lists? (i.e. don't subscribe sub lists to the umbrella list, just have the > master list update its list of users from the other ones, as in: That i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies(was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Pug Bainter wrote: > There are a lot of good things about Mailman, but #3 is a big hurdle > that won't be tollerated. After all, not everyone uses a UNIX system to > read mail. There are a large number of people in the world on AOL, > Hotmail, Yahoo, and MSN. I don't use a Un

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:09:41PM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > > I'm finding that Mailman has some hangups that make it undeseriable. > > You have the source, choose which one you hate least :-) > > Well the issue here is that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > I'm finding that Mailman has some hangups that make it undeseriable. > You have the source, choose which one you hate least :-) Well the issue here is that I don't think there is away around the duplicate email stuff from watch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:37:08PM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > > That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're > > > looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. > > Mailman doesn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're > > looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. > Mailman doesn't do that, sorry. That's too bad because you could make majordono do i

[Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:14:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're > looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. Mailman doesn't do that, sorry. > First, because not all of our subscribers will be able