From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia) To: Glenn Sieb
Dear Glenn,
Good morning!
If you look at what people _use_ Yahoogroups for, it's not just for a mailing list in general--it's being used to schedule get togethers, keep track of members' birthdays, et cetera. Mailman doesn't do all that (at least, not efficiently, unless you count some poor schmuck being stuck with the duties of emailing the whole list every week/month/etc to keep everyone up to date ;) ).
Okay. I've never used those other functions (maybe I should!) But I understand what you're saying.
And, from the past comments I've seen on the subject, it's not something that interests the dev team (and that's fine.. no one said they had to find it interesting .. I'm just mentioning it as this subject has been brought up in the past...
Okay.
Actually, I'm new to all this "open source" stuff. I was introduced to it by an American friend, Phil Oliver of Oliver Computing, who helped me set up my new server.
I'm truly staggered, amazed, and astounded at how much incredible FREE software has been and is being currently developed around the world.
I'd be surprised if some of the functions that exist in YahooGroups but don't exist in Mailman don't eventually get developed and be made available by somebody at some time.
Anyway, your notes have certainly helped me in comparing Mailman and YahooGroups. So thanks for that! :-)
Best Wishes,
PRODOS
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