Mark Delany wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:49:08PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > lets make this poor man happy and let us all tell him about how well
> > qmail/ezmlm works!
> >
> > This guy is Elias Levy (aleph1) and he runs the Bugtraq mailing list.
> >
> > Please send an email directly to him if you want to suggest qmail/ezmlm
> > for running a large mailing list with a secure piece of software. And
> > he also is sick of handling bounces...
>
> Whilst bounce processing is indeed a sale point for ezmlm, much of
> what Elias wants is above and beyond ezmlm. For example categorization
> and subscription by category. Sure you can (painfully) make a sublist
> for each category, as long as they don't invent and rename categories
> on the fly.
If he'd run off ezmlm-idx with a database backend I think this should
be no problem?
> Elias also talks about an emulation layer for LISTSERV. I've not heard
> of anyone providing that for ezmlm.
I don't know if there is any mailing list software out there having
an emulation layer for LISTSERV... Worst case he has to write one.
> This is not to under-rate ezmlm, as a base toolkit it would perform
> admirably, but the BUGTRAQ dood wants a lot of value-adds that are not
> part of ezmlm.
"There is no such as a free lunch" maybe? Some effort is required.
--
Andre
