Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2005, 15:13 -0600 schrieb Michael Loftis: [...] > The software is still far better than any open source list product I've > seen so far, but it is starting to show it's age. All of the documentation Could you provide some information about the advantages of listserv compared to open-source alternatives? I officially got the assignment to evaluate alternatives on Monday and might save some work if you have a recent comparison. Basically, - the utter lack of internationalization - the very coarse configurability of several options (e.g. if list-request should not require ok-confirmation you can only disable all spam-checking, without even knowing what "all" means, because that's a secret) - hard to explain dependencies (e.g. you can have a subject-tag, but that conflicts with ietf-header...) - and some annoying behavior (if one address is subscribe to ten lists and active probes happen once a month for each list, you get ten probes, while mailman would send one monthly-reminder for all lists on the given server, which my users consider to be much more convenient) - some lack of sitewide configuration (I want to disallow my listowners to change some options) cause lots of annoyance here. -- CU, Patrick.