[Mailman-Developers] A bit of perspective ....

[Kevin McCann]

Maybe I ought to explain what I'm up against. At work I'm running Lyris. 
I have hundreds of lists and many, many members.  I also have Mailman 
running a handful of small-ish lists (and at home I run a server with 
Mailman for a personal interest discussion list of nearly 1,000 
members). My organization (and in fact, my entire industry of 
international development) is embracing open source with a fervor and 
one of the things on the to-do list is to move all services that run on 
commercial software to open source software. NT, IIS, ColdFusion and 
Lyris, are, for all intents and purposes, history.  I now have online 
communities  that have been very much accustomed to Lyris features, 
performance, functionality, etc. Not to mention the web interfaces that 
marry Lyris and other online resources (profiles, documents, calendar, 
etc.).  I have the unenviable challenge of moving these people to a 
Mailman environment without making them feel like it is a step 
backward.  I would really like to believe that this is possible. I'm not 
ready to give up on this quite yet. I have looked at other open source 
MLM's, and for one reason or another, the others aren't at all usable. 
Mailman is the closest thing I see to a solution.

Anyway, that's my sob story.

I'll continue to look forward for solutions. Flame away if it'll make 
you feel like a better person, but I'm not giving up that easily.

- Kevin