[illumos-Discuss] Proposed migration off Mailman

[Garrett D'Amore]

I'm sick of mailman too.  +1

Andre van Eyssen <andre at purplecow.org> wrote:

>
>+1000. I'm sick of getting all the bounce messages from people trying to 
>pump spam and crap down the lists. The sooner it gets packed up and sent 
>to listbox the better.
>
>The current solution was built literally at the last minute and was rolled 
>to be running as quickly as possible.
>
>Actually addressing the points.
>
>1. No. I went through this a while back and all mailing list software 
>sucks. Mailman is actually one of the better options out there, which 
>speaks volumes as to the state of that industry.
>
>2. No. Google sucks. Google groups suck. I see no reason to hand Google 
>out data, a giant list membership for marketing purposes and contribute to 
>Google's overall part in the downfall of email.
>
>3. I'm perfectly happy with this option, especially knowing that bdha has 
>rewt on this platform anyway. This outfit has a stellar reputation for 
>doing the right thing.
>
>Andre.
>
>On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote:
>
>> We've been getting a lot of complaints about Mailman, and my own personal
>> preference has always been to avoid it like it's a rabid plague rat some jerk
>> fed a bunch of speed to.
>>
>> Thus:
>>
>>  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1156
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>
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