[Mailman-Users] how long does a installation take normally?

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:58 PM +0000 3/23/07, Lex Thoonen wrote:

>  I've now (with the assistance of my colleagues here) spent
>  considerably longer than the allocated 30 minutes trying to get this
>  setup for you, without success. Realistically we are not going to be
>  able to finish this without incurring additional PES fees, which may
>  add up to a few hours - please let us know whether you wish us to
>  carry on with this.

IMO, your service provider is incompetent.  If you're using a binary 
packaged version of Mailman, it should take less than a minute for 
the entire process to complete, including downloading the binary 
package.  If you're going to install from source, it might take a few 
more minutes.

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