[UFO Chicago] mailing list programs

[Nate Riffe]

Just now Jesse Becker made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> Any suggestions on mailing list managers?  I'm thinking of
> stuff like Majordomo (which I've used), and Mailman (which
> I haven't).

You have used mailman, but perhaps not administered a mailman list.
UFO is a mailman mailing list.

> Having said that, I am looking to relocate a mailing list
> from eGroups/YahooGroups, and would like to keep some of
> their more useful features.  Namely:  a web archive of the
> list traffic, and web interface for users to their
> settings.

Mailman has both of these.

> I don't mind using one program for handing the mailing
> list, and different one to manage the archives, but I have
> noticed that sometimes the archival programs can miss
> email...this is exactly what we are trying to get away
> from. :-/

Mailman used hypermail for archiving, but I'm not sure that they are
particularly separate anymore.  They did start out separate.

I can't say about majordomo except that I remember it being a pain in
the ass (as a list user).  It's been a few years since I've been on a
majordomo mailing list, so I don't know what, if anything, has
improved.

-Nate

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