Barry A. Warsaw | 8 Apr 2000 23:54
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[ANNOUNCE] Mailman 2.0 beta 2

I've just uploaded the Mailman 2.0 beta 2 tarball to the following
locations:

    http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz
    http://download.sourceforge.net/mailman/mailman-2.0beta2.tgz
    ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0beta2.tgz

See the UPGRADING file for details on upgrading from 1.1 or 2.0beta1.
See the NEWS file for a complete description of changes for every
version; below is an excerpt for changes since 2.0beta1.

Barring any showstopping bugs, this will be the last release until I
finish my taxes. :)

Enjoy,
-Barry

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- Rewritten gate_news cron script which should be more efficient and
  avoid race and locking problems.  Each list now maintains its own
  watermark, and when you use the admin CGI script to turn on gating
  from Usenet->mail, an automatic mass catch up is done to avoid
  flooding the mailing list.  cron/gate_news's command line interface
  has also changed.  See its docstring for details.

- A new cron script called qrunner has been added to retry message
  deliveries that fail because of temporary smtpd problems.

- New command line script called bin/list_lists which does exactly
  that: lists all the mailing lists on the system (much like the
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