[okfn-help] Does anyone like Mailman?

Tue May 17 09:38:03 UTC 2011

I've been chatting to Lucy about the intimidation factor of seeing several
dozen mailing lists. I've been using GroupServer[0] with a few other groups
and would like to recommend its adoption by OKFN.

"GroupServer has an email interface like Mailman, and a web interface like
Google Groups, but it's GPL."[0] To get a sense of what it is like as a
visitor, I recommend visiting the NZ open government ninjas mailing list[1].

Its feature list[2] is actually much more complete than Google Groups. One
of the features I like the best is how it handles files. Rather than sending
attachments to everyone, it stores attachments on the server and sends
recipients a link. This saves everyone bandwidth & there's a web accessible
permanent location for every file if you ever need it later.

Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks>  |
timmcnamara.co.nz

[0] http://groupserver.org/groupserver
[1] http://groups.open.org.nz/groups/ninja-talk
[2] http://groupserver.org/groupserver/features/
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