Re: MajorDomo MajorCool question.

Is Sympa an open-source (thus, free) product?

Thanks for bringing this up. As I only have one domain which accepts
email, this may not matter, but I'm intrigued.

Again, thanks,

Karl

On Fri, October 16, 2009 8:14 pm, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Brent Chapman wrote:
>
>> A few years ago, I moved all of the GreatCircle.com lists (including
>> this one, [email protected]) to the never-released
>> Majordomo2 (which is a total rewrite that I had no involvement with;
>> http://www.mj2.org/
>> ).  However, for the past couple of years, whenever I've set up new
>> sites and new lists, I've used GNU Mailman
>> (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
>> ), just like seemingly everybody else.
>
>
> We find ourselves at the same crossroads, and are in the process of
> switching to Sympa.  While Mailman certainly has a larger user base
> and good ease-of-use, the currently-released version doesn't do
> multiple domains with delegated administration, which is something OPG/
> QueerNet needs desperately.  With Mailman 2, we would need to install
> a new instance of Mailman for each domain we serve. (And Mailman 3 is
> alpha and feature-incomplete, and seems to need a lot of Python
> infrastructure to run.)  Sympa has a dedicated and funded development
> team, a good internationalized web interface, a concept of multiple
> independent domains ("robots"), and a fair amount of customizability
> without being the inscrutable Swiss Army Chainsaw that Mj2 ultimately
> turned into.


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