qmail license issue

[Christopher Faylor]

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:52:15AM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:42:03AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> 
>> Migration to gnu.org servers is not a good idea, witness the problems
>> we've had with the web mirror.
>
>Hear, hear.  I don't know any of the gnu.org admins, I don't know their
>situation (workload vs resources).  I do know that response times for
>problems is relatively slow; unacceptably slow for gcc.gnu.org.
>
>> The Debian folks managed to do a smooth transition from qmail to
>> postfix when a similar concern was raised about their list archives;
>> they might have advice.
>
>...smooth enough that I didn't notice.  This is the first time I heard of it.
>
>> Option 3 is to tell RMS to go jump in a lake.
>
>One which I would support in this situation.  I myself occasionally take
>flack for using a program from graphviz to make the libstdc++ doxygen pages,
>because for somebody out there, it's free, but not free /enough/.
>
>My standard hostile response is:  give me RMS-anally-retentive-free software
>with equivalent functionality and ease-of-use, and I'll switch to it in
>a flash, otherwise STFU.  (acronym expansion:  "go jump in a lake")
>
>Postfix may fit the "equivalent functionality and ease of use" requirement.
>I have no idea, never used it.

Postfix and Mailman (we'd need both) are definitely nice.  I've
administered postfix a little and I like the Mailman administrative web pages.
I'm sure Postfix could deal with the mailing list volume.

The only thing I don't like is the headache of switching over.  I'd have
to rewrite all of the spam filtering stuff to use mailman, move all of
the archives into mailman format (whatever that is), etc.  I'm just not
interested.  This is not broken.  It doesn't need to be fixed.  Besides,
this would take me away from my highly rewarding career as an email archive
editor.

These RMS edicts might be easier to take if, just once, they included a
"I appreciate all of the work you're doing, know that you're a
volunteer, and that your time is limited, but..." Those words probably
wouldn't change my mind, but it would make me a least slightly more
receptive to the idea.

cgf