Re: Suggest good mailing list server

[Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ravikant K. Rao" proclaimed:
> >>>>> "Sriram" == P Sriram <sriram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>     Sriram> ilugc runs on listserv. majordomo is very good but it is
>     Sriram> also "major"; listserv is quite functional and can be
>     Sriram> thought of as a light version of majordomo. unless your
>     Sriram> mailing lists are likely to have thousands of users,
>     Sriram> listserv will likely to an adequate job.

ListServ is a commercial software.  I have to pay to use them for a large
mailing list.

> As for Listserv:
> 
>            I do not like the way it handles $listname-request - It
> obeys some RFC wherein $listname-request@xxxxxxxxxx is actually a
> *person* and not the subscription program - Not sure how
> $listname-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx will work - but with BUGTRAQ, that was
> what happened. I didn't *like* that feature, more so because I got
> *too* used to Majordomo on virtually every mailing list server, and
> can type out MD commands in my sleep .. and listar behaved much like
> MD .. As for mailman - *everything* about it sucks - it emails
> passwords in clear text, once a month. The way it handles
> subscriptions and the commands that it allows are too weird and
> unlike-able [ This is an opinion, a matter of preference - in
> functionality, too, however, I believe, it is fairly far behind ] -
> The commands that ezmlm allow are *so* unconventional that it takes a
> *long* time to get used to, pretty much. Besides, there were/are a
> couple exploits on mailman/ezmlm  - IIRC systalk@xxxxxxx runs that.As
> for Listar/Majordomo - I don't really know about the security
> implications.


Majordomo2 (which is being used in lists.linux-india.org) is waaaay ahead
of mj1.

S.
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