RE: Here's another reason to avoid yahoogroups

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 07:41:55 PDT


On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> Yahoogroups works. It just works. The web interface is miles better
> than anything else I've seen. The reply-to is correct. The feature
> set is rich. Delivery is fast. It is thoroughly debugged and
> user-tested software.

Mailman/Postfix works. It just works. The web interface is miles better
than anything else I've seen. The reply-to is correct. The feature set is
rich. Delivery is fast. It is thoroughly debugged and user-tested
software.

> OTHO you can't migrate _away_ from yahoogroups gracefully, and you
> can't patch the software to do things they don't implement. Oh yeah,
> and there's no way to get good commercial-grade support.
>
> From running the decent list I spend a fair amount of time using the
> admin interface, and I can tell you that it blows away anything out
> there.

Anything commercial you can get for free, sure.



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