[Mailman-Users] is the mailman mailing list necessary?

[Mark Sapiro]

sea23 at seasalt.org wrote:
>
>I can't figure out what the purpose of the "mailman" mailing list is. 
>The install doc tells you to make the mailman list and the aliases for 
>it. My question is: IF you have other mailing lists, do you need 
>"mailman" mailing list? If so, what is it for?

You need it. bin/mailmanctl won't start the qrunners without it. See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.025.htp
for more about what it's for.

Also see yesterday's thread on this at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-February/042679.html

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