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Date:	Sat, 3 Apr 2004 11:34:09 PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: SCOUG Server: Bob's report, mailing list software (was: time allocation; spam filtering)

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Bob wrote:
>
> Weasel looks good except it does not generate RFC compliant "receive" headers.

Interesting. What is the non-compliancy; are they too long?

> > ZxMail http://www.zeryx.com/
> I think I will try this next.

Thanks, Bob.

> > MajorMajor
> 1. The list identifier can only be 8 bytes,
> "SCOUG-Programming:" is much longer than 8 bytes.
> 2. The digest is tied to the archive time. This feature
> does not make sense to me.

Is MajorMajor open source? It can't be that difficult to lengthen the
field.

> With the current version [of InetMail] we are using there is
> no confirmed subscription, a feature I think we should have.

What is confirmed subscription?

> I looked on Hobbes and downloaded the two mail list programs there.

Three? http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/list
major15.zip
mclst205.zip
mlp08.zip

> [Both of them do] not have confirmed subscription.

If confirmed subscription is important, perhaps we should find an open
source list processor and modify it.

> I could not find any other OS/2 mailing list servers.
> If someone knows of any post the URL.

Mailman (latest is Dec 2003) at http://mailman.sourceforge.net/ but it
uses Python and I didn't look to see if OS/2 has a Python.

There are a few other mail list programs on SourceForge (I searched on
"mailing list" and "mail list" -- be sure to check the box for "all
words" or it will do an OR search).

There might be a Java mail list program if we want to look. Terry
Warren may know of one.

Finally, should we write our own? It seems pretty simple to me -- you
check your POP3 mailbox every 60 seconds and if there's a message there
you send it out to a bunch of people. Heck, Hacksaw can do all the
sending and there's got to be some POP3 retrieval programs on Hobbes so,
like, dude, it's maybe a 20 line batch file. And we can put in
subscription confirmation. And the daily digests should be easy.

- Peter

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