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[MJ Ray]

David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> Hehe, I was going to post about how you don't have to do everything in
> perl, and my other example apart from mediawiki would be mailman.
> Really, both mediawiki and mailman are very good, and the effort
> required to do better in perl would, in my opinion, be too much to make
> it worthwhile.

I don't like Mailman and feel it's not a very good project.  There are
bugs and submitted patches just sit there for years.  For example,
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1054944&group_id=103&atid=100103
(and yes, I've also tried emailing them, using informal contacts at
FSF and so on).  I think the Mailman project is in pole position and
doesn't feel it needs to be good to continue.  Competition needed?

Sympa is a usable perl mailing list manager.  http://www.sympa.org/
Across all implementation languages, Enemies of Carlotta, mlmmj and
GroupServer are nicer than Mailman in my experience.  I do remember
battling MajorDomo, though.

I haven't had much to do with MediaWiki, but Kwiki seemed OK a few
years ago.  I quite like what HantsLUG have been trying to do with
UseMod to make it into a more abuse-resistant one called AbUseMod too.

Regards,
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MJ Ray (slef)
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