[cobalt-users] Choice for Moderated email pkgs?

["Marty Swartz" <meswartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, All.   Qube newbie here.  (Please forgive in advance if this 
shows up twice.  :(     )

I've been tasked by my organization with investigating the 
possibilities and pitfalls of setting up a moderated mailing list on 
a Cobalt Qube 2 or 3, yet to be purchased. I've perused the FAQs and 
Knowledgebase, and though I found answers, I have a few left. I'm 
hoping folks who have "been there, done that" can vet my tentative 
conclusions, point out the hidden pot-holes, and help me properly 
judge the options.

The key features I need are as follows.
- Support for more than one moderator.
- Optional suppression of email address in posts, preserving their privacy.
- Ability for modertor to edit messages if necessary.
- Support for user reply via email, without a ton of bogus tags in 
the message (like bogus DISCUS tags)
- Ability to easily import several thousand existing messages. 
(Currently in Eudora, can convert to .CSV or other)
- Moderators do not need to remotely send mail from within served 
domain. (more on this in a moment.)
- Reasonably friendly GUI. (Text-only interfaces need not apply.)

Current Understanding and Tentative conclusions
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1) The WebMail application looks like it's totally not going to do 
it, since only folks with a POP account can even see the archive. The 
lack of a Moderator provision (moderator review of messages before 
public visibility) is also a show stopper.

2) The KnowledgeBase points out that Majordomo can be run on a Qube, 
but is not supported by Sun/Cobalt. (No surprise there.) Can anybody 
refer me to their favorite Majordomo list hosted on a Qube?  Are 
there any known problems / challenges / difficulties with the 
Majordomo/qube combo?

3) I see that cobalt-users itself uses Mailman, but I can't tell 
whether it's hosted on a Qube, or a Raq, or "none of the above". The 
interface to the cobalt-users Archives seems unfriendly: no search 
mechanism is visible, and one would like to be able to browse the 
subject tree more easily. Have I overlooked something? Can anyone 
provide a reference site that uses Mailman on a Qube in a really nice 
way? Any known pitfalls?

4) [Off-domain moderators] This problem probably goes away regardless 
of what we choose, but I want to be sure. To date the Moderator of 
our list has been doing the mailing list locally from his desktop 
machine, using Eudora. (Which means we have no visible archive at the 
moment.) Before it tanked, he was on @Home, and was able to have ALL 
of the "from" addresses show our organization's domain (nwhs.org) 
even though he was not logged in to that domain.  (We actually had 
and still have no SMTP service within our domain.) Maybe this was an 
open relay within @home, we're not sure. Going forward, we need for 
all messages FROM the list to be branded with the organization's 
domain name, not the moderator's local ISP (SMTP) domain.

5) Are there any recommended packages that deliver better Bang for 
the Buck than the above?

6) What question have I not known enough to ask?

Thanks in advance for any advice. All comments appreciated.
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