I'm evaluating Mailman as a replacement for Majordomo, which we currently use for over 370 lists totalling over 12,000 subscribers. It looks good so far!

A few questions:

1: I notice that the footers of the Web pages relating to the test list I set up say "Test list run by realusername@my.list.host". Since the list setup creates aliases of listname-owner and listname-admin, I'd think it would be better to say "Test list run by Test-admin@my.list.host". That conceals the list-admin's real address and raises awareness among users that they should use the alias to contact a human responsible for the list, which is useful if the list-admin role is assumed by someone else. Can this change be made?

2: Are there conversion tools to easily import a Majordomo list into Mailman, together with any existing archives it may have?

3: Only a few of our lists currently have archives; with Mailman, I can see that archives may be more popular. Is there a way of limiting how much space the archives take up, perhaps by automatically removing those over a certain age?

thanks David

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