[Mailman-Users] Re: RFE

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > What you are talking about is a bulk mailer ... not a mailing list system.
> >
> > Again, my opinion ... but Mailman is designed to facilitate email based
> > discussion forums ... not blasting email to a huge number of people at
> > once.
> THANK YOU.  My pink detector went off REAL BAD on this one.  It sounds SO
> SIMILAR
> to what a certain person asked of me to install Mailman.

ditto.  I like to think of mailman in terms of Russ
Allbery's famous Usenet rant -- Mailman is there for
discussions between human beings, not as an engine for
automated systems to spew their database.

-roy