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RE: Caller ID and ease of adoption (was Microsoft submitting Call er ID as draft RFC)

2004-04-13 06:13:02

Two comments:

1) Although yahoo groups has a lot of mailing lists, it is still one 
        set of server software to fix.

2) If anyone knows the gmane folks they could probably run a perl
        script that would answer the sets sender question over the
        largest data set we are likely to get. 


Harry Katz writes:
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Philip Miller [mailto:millenix(_at_)zemos(_dot_)net]

 I doubt we really need to survey list operators. Instead, 
survey the 
 software used.
 This would include:    Sets Sender?    Sets MAIL FROM?
 YahooGroups                 n               y
 Mailman                     y               y
 ezmlm                       n               y
 Majordomo 1.x               y               y
 Majordomo 2.x               y               y

Interesting data, thanks. I still think it's relevent to 
ask how many 
lists out there are operated by each class of server, in 
other words, 
how many actually have to change. I would guess that Majordomo 
accounts for a huge chunk for example.

Hard to know, with so many mailing lists being private. 
Googling for the 
constant strings used by majordomo and mailman web frontends returns 
130 or so results for majordomo and 130,000 for mailman. Let me step 
out on the limb and claim that mailman is NOT a thousand times more 
popular than majordomo.


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