Lists.berkeley.edu: Mailing Lists Management Replacement

Updated June 7, 2004
	Lists.berkeley.edu: Mailing Lists Management Replacement Project

This project of Information Systems & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley is tasked with:

Migrating campus mailing lists to a modern hardware and software platform, replacing the old UCLink cluster.
Selecting and implementing a new mailing list management package to provide features requested by the campus, replacing Majordomo 1.94.5.

Features requested by the campus

Mailing List Management Packages: Feature Matrix: Capabilities of selected mailing list management packages compared with features requested by the campus community, based on 115 responses to a March 2004 survey.
(Updated April 14, 2004)

Comparative analysis

GNU Mailman versus Sympa: A comparison of some key characteristics of these two mailing list packages.
(Updated September 14, 2004)

Packages being investigated

The following mailing list management packages appear to meet most of the campus community's needs, and are currently being investigated:

	GNU Mailman	Sympa
Home page	http://www.list.org	http://www.sympa.org
Under continuous development since:	1998	1997
Used by:	MIT, Virginia, Washington, and many other US universities. Other sites using GNU Mailman ...	Brandeis, Texas A&M, Tufts, and many French universities. Other sites using Sympa ...
	Notes on GNU Mailman ... (Updated May 4, 2004)	Notes on Sympa ... (Updated June 7, 2004)