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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:03:56 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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CC: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com>
Subject: Re: Switching to mailman (Re: [Fwd: NDN: Re: [ODBC] Connect
	without queries?])
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Devrim,
> 
>> With Mailman, we will have a better web interface, human-controllable
>> web interface. Also we can have more people to administrate the mailing
>> lists. It also has an e-mail interface so that people, who does not want
>> to use web interface for moderation issues, can use it.
> 
> Actually, I personally find the web interface for majordomo much easier to 
> use than Mailman.   And I do both for pgfoundry and postgresql.org.  For 
> one thing, the mailman interface has a tendency to force you to re-log-in 
> repeatedly, which is really annoying.  Also, it has no way to do "discard 
> all e-mails in moderation queue"; you *have* to do them one at a time.

Yes mailman is kind of a pain for that but honestly, if the only gripe
is that we need to enter a password more than once... we must really
consider how lazy we have become.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> No question the e-mail CLI for mailman is better though.
> 


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