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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:10:21 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, josh@agliodbs.com,
	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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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> I'm more concerned that we seem to be hitting a *lot* of bugs in mj2
>> that nobody else has seen, which tells me that not a lot of people are
>> using it.
> 
> I dunno about a lot of bugs --- it strikes me that we are just pickier
> than average.  For instance Bruce's complaint about wrapped lines is
> something that would just not ever come up in most contexts.

I would agree with that, however there is another argument and that is
one of community.

Mailman is pretty much the defacto mailing list software out there. It
is used in extremely large installations including sites such as
SourceForge. It has an active community. Heck it even has a freenode
channel that people talk on.

There is a point, where it makes sense from a support and community
standpoint to move on.

Mj2 may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, except that I know of
no one that uses it but us, and had never even heard of it until we
brought out of its dying attic and mentioned its name.

Lastly, more and more people are mentioning moving to mailman for
management purposes. Yes there is the password issue, which is just one
of laziness more than anything. Other than that, I see no reason not to
move to Mailman.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 


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