Chapter 6
Yahoo Groups
Yahoo offers free mailing lists as part of their Yahoo Groups service. The mailing 
list is run using proprietary software created by Yahoo and supports access 
through both e mail and a Web interface. Note that only Yahoo members can join 
the list, and the Web interface is obscured by numerous advertising screens. For 
more information see http://groups.yahoo.com.
Rolling Your Own
It's not hard to set up your own mailing list if you have a UNIX machine handy that can 
send and receive e mail. If you run qmail
3
 as your mail handler, then Ezmlm
4
 may be 
your answer. It allows users with normal e mail accounts to set up their own mailing 
lists. Alternately, if you run Sendmail (available at http://www.sendmail.org) then you 
might find the venerable Majordomo (see http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/)
meets your needs. Another popular package is GNU Mailman (see 
http://www.list.org), which works with both Sendmail and qmail. Of course, 
these are just a few of the more popular alternatives there are far too many 
mailing list packages to list here!
Managing the Source
As maintainer, you are solely responsible for the code in your module. A main 
tainer has to act as both an editor and a librarian. This section will describe 
solutions, both technological and social, to some of the most common problems 
you'll face managing the source code of your module.
Feeping Creaturism
All software, open source and closed, is vulnerable to a disease known as feeping
creaturism. Once referred to by the less frightening creeping featurism, a new 
name was devised to more effectively render its hideous properties. A project 
suffering from feeping creaturism will exhibit symptoms of wild growth new 
features sprouting from old at a wild rate. Typically the project will grow less stable 
with each passing release as new features create new bugs. A simple module thus 
afflicted becomes complex and finally moribund with features.
3. Written by Dan J. Bernstein and available at http://qmail.org. You can learn more about 
qmail by reading the excellent book The qmail Handbook by Dave Sill (Apress).
4. Also written by Dan J. Bernstein and available at http://ezmlm.org.
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