[Mailman-Users] Successful Panther (MacOS X 10.3) installation

[John W. Baxter]

On 9/7/2004 18:58, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> What Apple think they're doing with Server, I don't know.  It doesn't
> make sense to me to trumpet open source and then not provide source
> for server subsystems, especially those like Mailman that are clearly
> 3rd party cake with a little Apple-flavored frosting.

Thanks to an announcement that many of Apple's mailing lists would be down
Saturday for movement to a new XServe, I was able to rattle a cage as
follows:

>> Apple is updating the hardware and software used to run our lists.apple.com
>> server this Saturday (PDT).  We are migrating our mailing list server to a
>> new 
>> Apple Xserve with faster processors, more RAM, and larger disks.
> 
> Running the rather odd* Mailman installation that comes with XServe, or
> something else?
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> *Rather odd:  Oldish version, modified, unusual installation, and essentially
> impossible for non-Apple people to update.


Unfortunately, I forgot to mention that paying for support does not enable
useful support to happen.

  --John