From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 11:36:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E9837B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wlv.untd.com (smtp03.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A650F43E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 14526 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2002 19:36:02 -0000 Received: from dialup-63.208.200.143.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (63.208.200.143) by smtp03.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2002 19:36:02 -0000 Message-ID: <3DCFDA48.A31433B2@netzero.net> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:26:48 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list software References: <200210221307.AA517865506@mail.aplusdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Um, may I point out a more convient MLM? tinylist. Web membership management, simple form- click a radio button for subscribe/unsubscribe, fill in your email address, click SEND. You get a letter. Reply to it. No passwords needed. It sends you a confirming letter telling you what it did. If there is a custom welcome/farewell message for the list, it sends you that instead. Simple. Grab the mouse, click, choose. simple. site: http://www.tinylist.org/ Master menu: http://www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLmastermenu.py Available lists: http://www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLwebmgr.py Anthony Abby wrote: > > >But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password > >to unsubscribe? > > > >That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the non-geek, > >mass-market crowd. > > sure does. > >Len > > > >Yes they do, and not to mention that, but most people will subscribe/unsubscribe from the >graphical interface anyway, and I think most people who are familiar with mailing lists will >attest, it's HORROR trying to admin a list hosted by Mailman. Until the developers make the >unsubscribe "feauture" more pronounced in Mailman, you're always going to have lord knows how >many screaming people on your list who don't know how to unsubscribe. It's terrible....check >out the Redhat mailing lists sometime! > flinch... > Anthony > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Now you know why I wrote tinylist- along with the headaches attendant to majordomo... end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ --------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message