Re: does anyone find it ironic that smartlist mailing list is using Mailman?
Quoting "David R. Linn" <drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>:
Yes, paritcularly when all that was needed was a trivial change to the list config.
Since YEARS list members complained about this, sending emails to Stephen and the list without any reaction of a responsible person.
Unfortunately, SRB has been otherwise occupied for a while and a plan to turn the procmail and SmartList machines over to a team never got off the ground. (I was a member of that team) For that matter, neither did a plan to move the lists to procmail.org and smartlist.org.
Now suddenly someone made a decision without asking the list members.
This list owns the list members not someone at an university who wants to be a big list master!
My perception is that the change was a result of the sudden decommisioning of the machine on which the list was running. (I have faced such a need in the past; when a machine is compromised, it needs to be off the net **NOW**.) So, the choice is not so much between SmartList and Mailman as it is between Mailman and *nothingness*, i.e. the list would have been abruptly discontinued.
Such an behaviour is disappointing and doesn't encourage anybody continuing to support SmartList/Procmail.
Personally, I thanked the RWTH staff for making the extra effort to keep the list alive when they could have let it die silently.
If the SmartList-Package-Maintainer agree to point to another list server for SmartList we could simply set up one very quickly (with searchable (web) archive ....) running with SL.
I personally believe we need to revive the plan to move the lists to procmail.org and smartlist.org.
I don't like to remember a password to unsubscribe and I don't like such a "list dictatorship"!
At least we still have a list on which to discuss this.
Werner
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:02:59AM -0500, David R. Linn wrote:
If the SmartList-Package-Maintainer agree to point to another list server for SmartList we could simply set up one very quickly (with searchable (web) archive ....) running with SL.
I personally believe we need to revive the plan to move the lists to procmail.org and smartlist.org.
Could you please let me know, who were the members of the group planning this. I saw that smartlist.org is only registered and not used. I would be willing to host this domain, set up the smartlist list (running with SL!) and the searchable web archive. I could be up and running within 1-2 weeks. I could also set up CVS for the SL package. Werner
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