Re: [cobalt-users] Support, Warranty and Hype

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> > If you have been able to install majordomo in such a way that it operates
> > with the virtual sites and allows each site administrator to use the GUI
> > and the standard majordomo email commands to control his/her list, then
> > the price is reasonable.
>
> I don't see why I should expect majordomo to operate within the gui.  I
> understand that Cobalt has fixed it to the point that you CAN change the
> list configuration file and the changes will "keep".

Geez Jeff, we're talking Cobalt, remember?  That's the product line that
has the GUI that keeps the Server Owner/Site Admin in the dark.

Given that, it makes sense that instead of telling 200 site admins to
ignore the mailing list item in their GUI and run some external do dad,
that someone, be it Sun, You or the man in the moon change either the
majordomo implimentation or the Cobalt script to let it all work.

One of the GREAT advantages of the GUI is that the Server Owner doesn't
have to play code jockey for many functions....and the servver admin can
add users, etc. without having to be a *nix person

>
> Have you ever read "list-owner-info" or the other Majordomo files?  If
> not (they should be included on the RaQ, but I don't think they are
> <frown>), I can set up an ftp folder for them.

Yep
>
> Majordomo IS majordomo, not Cobalt.  But you can use majorcool to
> maintain most of it.

Let's see, the COBALT majordomo doesn't support the reply-to correctly,
put and get don't seem to work.

> > But, if your service(grin) doesn't accomplish all of that, from my limited
> > perspective(self-depreciating smile), the Dim-Bulb(smile) Majordomo
> > problem hasn't been solved.
>
> I successfully use majordomo (on RaQs and other systems) to run lots of
> lists.  I think it has <smile>.

<grimmace>It's pointless to carry this on....we're talking apples and
oranges....you're, from what I can see, offering to install majordomo
and I'm saying that a better approach would be to have majordomo installed
in such a way that the setup is accessible via the GUI, and the software
be installed so that it works as the majordomo docs say it does.

Thom