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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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