From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia) To: Glenn Sieb

Howdy!

[Prodos:]

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Would anyone on this list care to offer a comparison? Or, if you are an ex-YahooGroups user, say why you changed to Mailman? Or, if you know of an already existing comparison online somewhere, perhaps you could send me the URL.

[Chris Barnes:]

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For pure mailing list capabilities, MM (and other "real mailing list managers" such as Lsoft's Listserv, majordomo, etc) have Yahoo groups beat hands down.

• no advertising (some of which is of less than acceptable topics for lists my kids get!)

• Better response time (depending on your connection)

But if you are enamored with the extra features in yahoogroups such as the calendar, file sharing, etc - you might be disappointed. None of these others have any of that. Just as well since I hate those things anyway...

[Glenn:]

Yes--if you're looking for community-based mailing lists, MM will not do...

Will NOT do?

Hmm ... okay.

I've toyed with writing something around MM to more emulate the YahooGroups functionality that way, as A) I _was_ a user of those features B) People I know who run groups on Yahoo, haven't taken me up on my offer of hosting on my server, because MM *doesn't* offer calendars, integrated web-posting, et cetera, that they actively use.on Yahool.

Okay.

Unfortunately, it's the old axiom: It's a Simple Matter of Programming. Now to only find the _time_ to do that programming. :-/

Maybe a future version of Mailman will offer some of those functions.

Thanks for your comments.

=]:-)

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