[UFO Chicago] alternatives to mailman?

[Neil R. Ormos]

Nick Moffitt wrote:
> Josef Grosch:

>> Have a look at sympa. It's in the ports collection.

> It's also in Perl, which puts it squarely in the
> ghetto of "software not really worked on since
> the 90s", I'll bet.

What is relevant about its being in PERL is that
Brian was looking for a solution that "doesn't
include perl."  But thanks to Josef for calling
attention to this package; I hadn't seen it before
and it looks pretty cool.

It's interesting however that maturity and
stability in software is now something to be
(speculatively) criticized.

Based on the project news page, it seems to be in
relatively active development.

-> Sympa 5.3 - May 31st 2007

-> Development of this version started in april
-> 2006. It includes many new features that have been
-> tested by many sites who have installed alpha and
-> beta versions of Sympa over the last year.

> Now if only we could make PHP as irrelevant as
> Perl has become...

What would UFO be with out the trolls?