Sandra Maynard <smaynard@agric.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
dear Mailman, I currently use your Mailman software at work , through my univesity system, and a fabulous system it is indeed. Do you have any equivalent software that would work on the web, but not using the linux operating system?
To be quite accurate, "Linux" is the name of a kernel which is an important part of the operating system; the whole system should properly be called GNU/Linux.
Anything more user friendly for us computer morons?
Mailman is part of the GNU system (which, when combined with the kernel called Linux, gives you GNU/Linux ).
We're working on making the GNU system more user-friendly to users who are not so technically inclined. (As a matter of fact the GNU system is already very user friendly to users like me who like editing configuration files in Emacs, etc. It could be said that our system is just too selective in choosing its friends :-)
The main point about GNU has always been to create a complete operating system which is completely Free Software, for details please refer to http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html
Would you be willing to help us with making the GNU system more friendly to users like you?
Greetings, Norbert.
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