On 7 Mar 2006 at 10:22, Michael Loftis wrote:

> Because it's very expensive, as is ListServ. 

So is time spent programming an alternative, and so are the mistakes 
made by programmers who do not have as much experience with email and 
LISTSERV as the Maestro development team. Nor the direct and 
immediate access to the LISTSERV development team. 

You get what you pay for. What you get for the price of LISTSERV 
Maestro is the result of a team of very good programmers working on 
nothing but Maestro for the past 5 years (and on related applications 
before that). And that's on top of LISTSERV, which has 20 years of 
development under it, including by the world's foremost expert on 
mailing list management, Eric Thomas. 

No way anyone is going to get equivalent quality for anywhere near 
that price by programming their own.

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