I have just uploaded Mailman version 1.1 to www.list.org, and this will hopefully soon be mirrored to ftp.gnu.org. This release is precipitated by the removal of all GIFs from the distribution. There have also been some performance improvements, although lots more can still be done. ;)

See the NEWS file excerpt below for details of changes. Sadly, the internationalization effort has not yet been integrated (mostly due to time constraints of the core maintainers).

Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager, is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page, and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the web. Mailman also integrates most things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail-to-news gateways, and so on. Mailman is writtein primarily in Python, with a little bit of C for security.

See http://www.list.org or http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html for details and downloading.

-Barry

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• All GIFs removed. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for the reason why.

• Improvements to the Pipermail archiver which make things faster. Primary change is that the .txt files are not gzip'd on every posted message. Instead, use the new cron script `nightly_gzip' to gzip the .txt file in batches (this means that the .txt file will lag behind the on-line archives a little).

• From the C drivers programs, Python is invoked with the -S option. This tells Python to avoid importing the site module, which can improve start up time of the Python process considerably. Note that the command line script invocation has not been changed.

• New configuration variables PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER which can contain a shell command string for os.popen(). This can be used to invoke an external archiver instead of the bundled Pipermail archiver. See Defaults.py for details.

• new script `bin/find_member' which can be used to search for a member by regular expression.

• More child processes are reaped, which should eliminate most occurances of zombie processes.

• A few small miscellaneous bug fixes (including PR#99, PR#107) and improvements to the file locking algorithms. -------------------- snip snip --------------------

<p><a href="http://www.list.org/">Mailman 1.1</a> - the GNU mailing list manager, implemented primarily in Python. (05-Nov-1999)