At 8:18 AM -0400 7/28/00, Roger Burton West is rumored to have typed:

It seems a little ironic not to use the smartlist software for smartlist's own mailing list!

Yeah. Seems there are two factors at work; 1) the lack of knowledge of those operating the list servers about how good SmartList _can_ be (possibly based on the bad experiences from the "abandoned" procmail and SmartList lists), and 2) the desperate need for software to use the Web for totally unnecessary things, simply because it's there. (Fortunately, you _can_ change your mailman settings through email, the way the mailing list gods intended. I don't know if the admins are aware of this, what being Web-centric and all...) Personally, I can't help but think the procmail and SmartList lists should be removed from rwth-aachen.de anyway, since it's pretty obvious they have nothing whatsoever to do with the programs anymore, anyway. Charlie (who's terribly opinionated, ain't he?)