[NGO] Re: Re: Re: Plone FAQ for CMS evaluators

[Alexander Limi]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:57:07 -0700, Steve McMahon  
<steve at dcn.org> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be much better to integrate with an external list server  
> (e.g., Mailman) than to try to reproduce the functionality (including  
> bounce processing, confirmations, personalization, digesting and queue  
> management) inside Plone? Wouldn't we rather have those functions  
> loosely coupled?

Have you ever *used* Mailman? ;)

Until the mythical Mailman 3 rewrite happens, it's not much of a loss.  
Right now, the single most unusable tool I have to deal with on a  
day-to-day basis is Mailman. Its bounce processing sucks, its blocking  
abilities suck, the list management options are horrendous and pretty much  
unusable. Oh, and the code is so dense that even if it's Python, it's  
impossible to change anything.

What do we miss out on again? :)


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