Re: MajorDomo MajorCool question.

Yes, Sympa (sympa.org) is both open source and free.

On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Karl Pearson wrote:

> 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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