[okfn-help] Does anyone like Mailman?

Tue May 17 10:27:13 UTC 2011

GroupServer powers e-democracy.org which has a Brighton group I'm involved with.

Personally I find the web interface really confusing and hard to use. The email side of things is ok but no massive leaps.

I'm no huge fan of MailMan but I don't think GroupServer is the answer unless huge leaps can be made in the web UI.

All the best,
Jason

On 17 May 2011, at 11:20, Lucy Chambers wrote:

> +1 - we also talked about this in Brighton. Tim is going to speak to
> the developer behind GroupServer and see how much effort it would be
> to migrate lists, then we can evaluate it as a possibility!
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Tim McNamara
> <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
>> 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  |  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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