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From: Charlie Summers <charlie@lofcom.com>

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I honestly don't understand it. Can _anyone_ explain why using a web server to control a mailing list as simple to maintain as SmartList is a "good thing?"

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Answer #1: Most of the world works with MUAs that make adding headers (i.e. lines to the header of messages) needlessly difficult. Answer #2: Most of the world has a WWW browser that they have come to use for every sort of task, even when the task is more easily accomplished via a simple command. Why? Because they don't have to remember what tasks can be accomplished or how to do those tasks; they simply choose from the options presented and the CGI script walks them through the process. This is the CLI/GUI argument in a nutshell: one provides a simple (?) method to do (precisely ?) what you want if you can remember how to do it; the other provides a method of doing (approxminately) what you want without your having to remember much more than how to get to the starting point.