Usability and efficiency improvements of the (GNU Mailman) mailing lists Rudy Borgstede (
[email protected]) System and Network Engineering University of Amsterdam July 5, 2008 Versions Version Date Changes 0.0.1 18 May 2008 First setup of the report 0.0.2 9 June 2008 Release Candidate 1 of the project proposal 0.1.1 17 June 2008 A rewrite of the document because of the change of project result. The project will deliver an advice rather then a product like a patch or add-on for GNU Mailman. This means that the report becomes an consultancy report instead of a project proposal. 1.0.0 30 June 2008 Final version 1 of the report. 1.0.1 1 July 2008 A spelling check of the report. 1.0.2 5 July 2008 Extending the conclusion en future work chapters. Participants Name Contact Information University of Amsterdam Rudy Borgstede (Student)
[email protected] Cees de Laat (Supervisor)
[email protected] NLnet Michiel Leenaars (Supervisor)
[email protected] Abstract This report is the result of a research project of four weeks at the NLnet Foundation1 in Amster- dam. The NLnet Foundation is a foundation who financially supports the open-source community and their projects. The purpose of the project is to improve the usability and the administration of the mailing lists (of the foundation) and giving a more clear view on mailing list server software to anyone who is interested in using mailing list server software or developing new mail or mail- ing list server software. The report describes the research of the usability of several open-source mailing list server software for scalable environments with several well known mail servers.