List?

[A Joseph Ross]

I just thought nobody was posting.  Imagine my surprise just now when I 
saw a whole lot of posts going back to last summer!

Oddly enough I had just been thinking of this list a few hours ago, when 
I was recalling Arnie Ginsburg's early Nighttrain show on WBOS 1600.  
And I thought of posting a question and wondered whether the list would 
still function.

My question was:  Does anyone remember whether Arnie was on before or 
after Ken Mayer's talk show?


On 11/2/2021 11:21 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 23:05:41 -0400, Kevin Vahey<kvahey@gmail.com>  said:
>
>> Thanks Garrett for getting the jumper cables out
> It is still quite likely that this list will not survive the
> end-of-life of Mailman 2.
>
> The list runs on software called GNU Mailman.  At some point in the
> now-hazy past, the developers of Mailman decided to work on a
> different and incompatible mailing-list manager, confusingly also
> called "GNU Mailman", and discontinue working on the old Mailman that
> everyone still uses.
>
> Another group of developers sprang up to maintain the old Mailman, but
> this is not sustainable, because old Mailman is written in version 2
> of the Python programming language.  The Python developers decided to
> work on a different and incompatible programming language, confusingly
> also called "Python", and ended support for the old Python ended in
> early 2020.  The packaging system that my server uses officially
> deprecated the old Python (and thus the old Mailman) at the end of
> last year, and it will be deleted soon.  It hasn't gone away yet (and
> in fact there was a security patch applied last month) but at some
> point it will in fact stop working, and I do not have the time or the
> desire to hack on Python to keep it running.
>
> Different groups have taken their own approaches to the deficiencies
> of the various Mailman replacements (all, including the new Mailman,
> are missing some essential features).  However, the traffic on this
> list is so limited, and most list members are more easily reachable in
> some other medium, so I'm dubious that it's worth the effort to
> completely replace the mailman installation with something else.  The
> fact that I didn't hear from anyone in four months that the list was
> broken until Kevin contacted me on Twitter and Paul sent personal
> email is an indication of the state of the current level of interest
> in the list.
>
> -GAWollman
>

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