Re: [OFF TOPIC] majordomo and exim
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:47:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:33:43AM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote:
> > On a side matter, why is majordomo not part of the debian distro?
>
> It had to be removed:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce-00/msg00007.html
>
Wasn't aware of majordomo 1s security issues, but I'd guessed it was a licensing thing.
> Majordomo 2 could probably be packaged (apparently it shares no code
> with Majordomo 1 and has a more sensible licence), but nobody's done it
> yet.
>
> > I looked through the packages and saw mailman, which I guess is more
> > the default mailing list software for debian.
>
> "Default" is a fairly meaningless concept here. :)
>
Yes, I guess I just meant "the debain way".
> > Is it better than majordomo?
>
> It's a contentious issue.
>
Perhaps a little less contentious would be: what is people's preferred mailing list management software (and why)? I'd be interested to know. I just went the majordomo route because I'd heard of it previously and thought I'd give it a go. Not exactly a decision based on science, but hey...
Cheers,
Keith
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