Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM -0500 2004-09-23, Jon Roland wrote: In production mode, where the machine is serving visitors from the Internet, no, but for development and learning how to set one up, a lot of people have to make use of more limited hardware. Not all of us have the luxury of being able to develop

[Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:52 AM -0500 2004-09-23, Chris Barnes wrote: Quite frankly, "old underpowered laptops" shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). Actually, I do that kind of thing myself. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Jon Roland
Chris Barnes wrote: Quite frankly, "old underpowered laptops" shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). In production mode, where the machine is serving visitors from the Internet, no, but for development a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Barnes
Jon Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course not. Just a simple GUI front end for installing and setting > up a Mailman site, that would incorporate expert knowledge about > various environments so that the user doesn't have to struggle with > manually editing configuration files, finding need

[Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Chris Barnes
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've figured that out, and I can certainly see why it makes sense >> when the list administrator is not directly on the machine that >> hosts mailman, but it seems like it would be useful to have an >> alternative of running a python GUI that does the