Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030372AbVJEU0h (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:26:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030373AbVJEU0h (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:26:37 -0400 Received: from van-1-67.lab.dnainternet.fi ([62.78.96.67]:52621 "EHLO mail.zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030372AbVJEU0g (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:26:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 23:26:35 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why is this list using Majordomo? Message-ID: <20051005202635.GE3598@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: <4343FEDF.3020002@perkel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1024 Lines: 28 On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:19:29PM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Marc Perkel wrote: > > Instead of a smarter more modern list software package like Mailman? > > Because the maintainer of the list invented it and it's better than > all the other clones. Sorry, none of us is Brent Chapman. :-) But Majordomo is better than any other in free/open software then or since in my experience. Part of VGERs performance success is ZMailer MTA, of which current main author I am, and our Majordomo installation uses several optimized auxiliary programs to speed things up so that MTA takes up large share of processing load with least possible CPU or IO expenditure. > > -- > > Marc Perkel - marc@perkel.com > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson /Matti Aarnio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/