Maybe I ought to explain what I'm up against. At work I'm running Lyris. I have hundreds of lists and many, many members. I also have Mailman running a handful of small-ish lists (and at home I run a server with Mailman for a personal interest discussion list of nearly 1,000 members). My organization (and in fact, my entire industry of international development) is embracing open source with a fervor and one of the things on the to-do list is to move all services that run on commercial software to open source software. NT, IIS, ColdFusion and Lyris, are, for all intents and purposes, history. I now have online communities that have been very much accustomed to Lyris features, performance, functionality, etc. Not to mention the web interfaces that marry Lyris and other online resources (profiles, documents, calendar, etc.). I have the unenviable challenge of moving these people to a Mailman environment without making them feel like it is a step backward. I would really like to believe that this is possible. I'm not ready to give up on this quite yet. I have looked at other open source MLM's, and for one reason or another, the others aren't at all usable. Mailman is the closest thing I see to a solution.
Anyway, that's my sob story.
I'll continue to look forward for solutions. Flame away if it'll make you feel like a better person, but I'm not giving up that easily.
- Kevin