[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Announce] A book on Mailman?
Opinions, please.
Josh Rabinowitz
joshr-garbage at joshr.com
Fri Nov 7 16:38:30 EST 2003
>Dear Mailman Users:
>
>My name is Martin Streicher, and I am the Editor for Open Source
>books at Apress (http://www.apress.com). I am considering publishing
>a book on Mailman and would like to hear your opinions.
>
>Briefly, the book would be very focused on Mailman, would be about
>150-200 pages, and would sell for less than $20. The book would be
>very hands-on, something you would keep in your lap and work through
>as you installed and configured Mailman with the MTA and web browser
>of your choice. Then the book would switch to a problem-solution
>section, useful for when you are troubleshooting or adding features
>to your configuration, or trying to help users manage their Mailman
>accounts.
>
>My questions:
>
>1/ Is such a book needed, and what is it's potential?
Yes it's needed. Potential? I have no idea.
>2/ If it is needed, what information should it include? What
>problems come up time and again?
Initial installation with various mail servers. And more importantly,
(or equally importantly), ow to change mail servers and upgrade
versions of mailman.
>3/ Should it only be about Mailman, or should it include ezmlm,
>Mailman, and Majordomo?
Just mailman. Who cares about those anyway? Majordomo sux.
>4/ Finally, what other topics in system administration might fit
>this format -- short, project-oriented, solutions -- well?
That is a good question.
I think an SSH cookbook might work.
>Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your replies.
>Please send replies to martin at apress.com. I will post a summary of
>all replies so as to share the info, but not clutter the list in the
>interim.
>
>Martin
>
>
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