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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
