Re: Debian User List
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:04:31 -0400
Andrew Malcolmson <andzy@imap.cc> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:09:01AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > Why not use Gmail (or something similar) for ML traffic? Free (as in
> > beer), close to 3 GB of storage, free POP access.
> >
>
> The real question is why Debian doesn't run a modern, user-friendly,
> mailing list manager like Mailman, as does the entire rest of the open
> source community. The user shouldn't be forced into kludgy solutions
> because Debian alone continues to use a manager from ancient days.
You omitted the context of my post. David had written:
> > (Yes, if I wanted to leave my computer on 24/7 and pay for a fixed IP, I could
> > dispense with the provider's email server, smarthosting and the like and let
> > my exim4 do the work (which it does quite well). Then again, the /var
> > partition will fill up producing the same results. So ... let's have fun but
> > consider onr another and keep things reasonable.)
implying that a technical solution was impractical or expensive, to
which I responded that it was not necessarily so.
> If I have to use webmail for mailing list traffic, I loose the power and
> convience of reading all my mail on my IMAP server in mutt.
Why? You can set up an IMAP store on the mail you've popped from Gmail.
Celejar
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