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Re:Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists by philwelch on Thursday December 03, 2009 @01:16PM (#974858)
Sounds just like "free software" to me--you're free from the constraints of commercialization, but not from the constraints of the programmers' social ideologies.

I'm not saying this to troll, I can just imagine lots of situations where I may want to set up a mailing list, but few where I want that list to become some sort of anarchic debating society where someone else's software handles the moderation for me.

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Re:Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists by zedshaw on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:06PM (#975435)
Well, the code's right there, so if you don't trust anyone else's moderation software, then you are free to grab it and run your own show. In fact, I'll even put up docs on how to get your own going.

Maybe I'll call it the "tin foil hat" release of Librelist. :-)

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