From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia) To: Paul H Byerly

Dear Paul,

Thanks for your comments ....

[Prodos:]

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I'm writing to ask about comparing Mailman with YahooGroups.

Would anyone on this list care to offer a comparison?

[Paul:]

  Mailman does not allow posting from the archives.

Ah! Good point. That's a big minus.

There is a program know as M2F that will tie Mailman and phpbb together - see http://m2f.sourceforge.nethttp://m2f.sourceforge.net (public beta). I've not yet tried that integration, but it looks promising. Mailman does not have a files section, or calender.

Thanks. I'll have a look at it.

It does not have a built in archive search, but one that far exceeds Yahoo's can be easily added.

Do you (or other mailman-users members) know where I can find the "patch" for that please?

HTML is not well supported.

Okay.

[Prodos:]

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Or, if you are an ex-YahooGroups user, say why you changed to Mailman?

[Paul:]

  Yahoo has been increasingly unreliable, and the ads are worse and

worse. Some of the list moved from Yahoo to Mailman are now boards run on phpbb - look at both and see what best fits your needs, or look at the M2F method of combining the two

Thanks for that suggestion.

=]:-)

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