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Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
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This is `GNU Mailman`_, a mailing list management system distributed under the
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terms of the `GNU General Public License`_ (GPL) version 3 or later.
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Mailman is written in Python_, a free object-oriented programming language.
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Python is available for all platforms that Mailman is supported on, which
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includes GNU/Linux and most other Unix-like operating systems (e.g. Solaris,
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\*BSD, MacOSX, etc.). Mailman is not supported on Windows, although web and
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mail clients on any platform should be able to interact with Mailman just
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Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
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2008, 2009 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Mailman.
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GNU Mailman is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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GNU Mailman is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
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A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
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GNU Mailman. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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The name of this software is spelled `Mailman` with a leading capital `M`
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but with a lower case second `m`. Any other spelling is incorrect. Its full
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name is `GNU Mailman` but is often referred colloquially as `Mailman`.
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Mailman was originally developed by John Viega. Subsequent development
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(through version 1.0b3) was by Ken Manheimer. Further work towards the 1.0
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final release was a group effort, with the core contributors being: Barry
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Warsaw, Ken Manheimer, Scott Cotton, Harald Meland, and John Viega. Version
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1.0 and beyond have been primarily maintained by Barry Warsaw with
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contributions from many; see the ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file for details. Jeremy
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Hylton helped considerably with the Pipermail code in Mailman 2.0. Mailman
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2.1 is now being primarily maintained by Mark Sapiro and Tokio Kikuchi. Barry
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Warsaw is the lead developer on Mailman 3.
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The Mailman home page is:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
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The community driven wiki (including the FAQ_) is at:
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Other help resources, such as on-line documentation, links to the mailing
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lists and archives, etc., are available at:
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http://www.list.org/help.html
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Mailman 3.0 requires `Python 2.6` or newer.
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.. _`GNU Mailman`: http://www.list.org
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.. _`GNU General Public License`: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
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.. _Python: http://www.python.org
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.. _FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Frequently+Asked+Questions
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.. _`Python 2.6`: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.2/
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