On 2006-02-17 12:04:27 +0000, Mark Hellman wrote:
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:04:27 +0000 From: Mark Hellman
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Communication, News etc. To: opensuse@opensuse.org Having the information available buried in the archives of the mailing list which doesn't have a search function is not exactly helpful for casual users
That is a big problem that OpenSUSE people refuse to understand.
1. The mailing-lists run on obsolete software (ezmlm). Mailman is much more featureful and user-friendly.
i dont think you need all the features of mailman.
2. It is odd to run the mailing-lists on software that OpenSUSE does not even include on its distribution!
henne is working on the migration of the list to a software which is included on the distro: mlmmj
3. The best way to read many mailing-lists without having to download thousands of emails every day is to use the Gmane NNTP<->Mailing-Lists gateway (http://www.gmane.org). And since Gmane has its own search engine, OpenSUSE wouldn't need to worry in implementing it. But for Gmane to make real sense, a mailing-list subscriber must be able to disable mail delivery. And this NOT possible with ezmlm.
mlmmj allows no mail delivery subscription.
Despite all this, OpenSUSE insists on using ezmlm. Why?
noone thought on changing it so far? ezml was running fine for years. now it is moved to mlmmj. so noone really insists on using ezml. hope this helps darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org