Mailman - An Extensible Mailing List Manager Using Python

Email has a key role in the explosive growth of the Internet, calling for Mailing List Management Systems (MLMS) that can adapt to, and even foster, new forms of community organization as they emerge. A new MLMS, Mailman, is well suited to such evolution because it has been developed to be versatile and extensible. One factor contributing to these strengths is its implementation in Python. In this paper we will look at various aspects of Mailman’s extensibility. We will consider how the system’s design and how features of its implementation language, Python, factor into that extensibility. [via]

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