[Mailman-Users] Mailman on Windows

[David Ornstein]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of J C Lawrence
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:05 PM
> To: David Ornstein
> Cc: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Windows
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:28:46 -0700
> David Ornstein <davido at nuvomedia.com> wrote:
>
> > So, is it truely hopeless?  The web pages make it sound like it
> > just can't work.  Can anybody given some more details?  What
> > requirement does Windows (e.g., Win2K) fail?  Has anybody tried to
> > make it work?
>
> Its definitely possible.  I doubt its worthwhile.  Mailman was not
> designed with portability in mind, and so assumes things like a Unix
> process model and such forth.

In what way do you think the Unix process model substantially differs from
the Windows one?  And I mean NT/Windows 200, here, not that crappy DOS-based
Windows 9x series.

David



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