Reminder: Survey for next generation of campus maillists

   A reminder: you have two more days - until end of day this Friday,
March 19 - to give your input on features you'd like to see in the
next generation of campus mailing lists:

   http://socrates.Berkeley.EDU:7309/public/mlms.html

   Nearly 80 responses to this survey have been received to date,
which is a terrific response rate. Just under half of these have
also included narrative comments. To those of you have already
responded: a big "thank you!"

   An update: the current plan, subject to change, is to replace
Majordomo 1.94.5 on the old UCLink system with a new mailing list
management package running on the new CalMail system by Memorial Day.

   The packages currently under consideration are (in alphabetical order):

   * CommuniGate Pro's LIST module
     <http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/LIST.html>
     (The integral maillist functionality of CalMail's current
     mail server software.)

   * GNU Mailman <http://www.list.org/features.html>
     Slick and well-liked; used by The Library and possibly other campus
     departments.

   * Majordomo 2 <http://www.math.uh.edu/majordomo/>
     The next generation of Majordomo.

   * Sympa <http://www.sympa.org/features.html>
     Roughly feature equivalent to GNU Mailman, with some intriguing
     unique features (e.g. dynamic lists via SQL or LDAP queries).

   (GNU Mailman, Majordomo 2, and Sympa are all open source projects.)

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
(for the CalMail Service team)

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