[adelaide.pm] Mailing list news

[Justin Hawkins]

Hi folks,

Although it had a grand total of 3 messages, I had to discard the old MLM and switch over to mailman.

The mailman installation is hosted on the pm.org system, you can manage your subscription at http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/adelaide-pm

I'll continue to archive on the http://adelaide.pm.org web site as well. Just for posterity and continuity :-)

Please note the new posting address, in the footer of this email.

If you're interested in why I switched MLM's after just 3 messages, read on....

I've used ecartis for years. Although it hasn't been actively developed for a while, I considered that more to do with it's complete feature set and stability. No clunky web interface, just rock-solid mailing list handling, with all administration done via email (the way it should be, IMHO).

I still host several lists on ecartis, and will probably continue to do so.

However a show-stopper bug appeared in relation to setting up the adelaide.pm list, which prevented quoted printable handing from working correctly while the options to strip attachments were also turned on. You may have noticed the appended equals signs on the first couple of emails. Ugly.

At any rate, thanks to the good graces of the pm.org folks, we have a working mailing list, with a nice address, which I don't have to worry about administering :-)

Thanks for listening!

	- Justin

P.S. yes, mailman is written in python. There are so many good mail modules on CPAN, I feel like writing the spiritual successor to ecartis in perl....

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Justin Hawkins
justin at hawkins.id.au