Adam D McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> ezmlm is very easy to work with if you do and understand standard Unix
>> commands and files. But list owners don't normally have that kind of
>> access at nearly all list hosting sites that I'm aware of.
> A few people I know are running web interfaces to ezmlm/ezmlm-idx...
> that makes it quite easy to administer..
But now you're not talking about just ezmlm, but ezmlm plus a web
interface. Which has to be checked pretty carefully for security, and is
a bunch of additional work to provide the central administration point
that Majordomo has.
I'm not saying Majordomo is better. At the things ezmlm was *designed*
for, it's massively better, and I like the overall architecture better.
But I don't think *anyone* likes Majordomo's architecture; it's an
extremely old program written quite some time ago, and is interesting
mostly because it was one of the first and because everyone's very used to
it, not because it's particularly good.
(For those who don't know already, Majordomo is being rewritten from
scratch, and the new version has a *lot* of nice features built in,
including a more thorough understanding of MIME including the ability to
strip out attachments and do various things with them, native qmail
support, per-user databases and options like listserv's NOMAIL and such,
possibly rate limiting, better digest support.... It's still in
development, though, and ezmlm is still going to be better at what it was
designed for. ezmlm and Majordomo are nearly on opposite ends of several
fundamental design decisions that are neither right nor wrong, just suited
for different ways of working.)
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
