[Mailman-Users] still want to know about Y2K compliance

[Aaron Optimizer Digulla]

On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:04:50AM -0400, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:

> I need to have some kind of 'cert' that mailman is y2k compliant.  I didn't
> find anything on the mailman website.
> If I can't provide this, I'm afraid I won't be allowed to 'keep' it by our
> new IT director.

*THIS IS NO LEGAL STATEMENT. IF ANYONE IS HARMED IN ANY WAY BY WHAT IS
SAID BELOW, THEN I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE* :-)

Mailman reads times from your mail system, so if that is y2k compliant,
there *should* be no problems. Python itself should also be y2k compliant
(see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?query=y2k&querytype=anykeywords&casefold=yes&req=search).

See this URL also for an explanation why there is no "cert": If someone
would say "Mailman is compliant" and some obscure bug shows up, that
person would be liable for this (and that could end up in large sues
for damages).

-- 
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla             Team AMIGA     AROS Head of Development
Author of XDME, ResTrackLib, CInt.		       <http://www.aros.org/>
"(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than
by buying a faster machine."				   <digulla at hepe.com>