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+Title: Mailman Features
+Other-links:
+    <h3>Exits</h3>
+    <li><a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html">MHonArc</a>
+
+<h3>Mailman Features</h3>
+
+Here's a brief description of the new features in Mailman 2.1
+The <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/mailman/NEWS?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup"
+>NEWS</a> file contains a detailed summary of all new features.
+
+<ul>
+<li>Through-the-web list creation and removal (with automatic
+    support depending on the MTA)
+<li>Multi-lingual support: list web pages and email notices can be in
+    any of nearly two dozen supported language, configurable
+    per-site, per-list, and per-user
+<li> "Real name" support for members
+<li>Much better password-less operation for simple user tasks.
+<li>Support for personalized deliveries and
+    <a href="http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt">VERP</a>-like message
+    delivery for foolproof bounce detection
+<li>Emergency moderation
+<li>MIME-based content filtering, with demime/stripmime like options
+<li>Regular expression based topic filtering
+<li>Better membership management, including searching
+<li>Re-organized administrative requests pages
+<li>Moderated newsgroup support
+<li>A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing
+    the dependence on cron, for better responsiveness and
+    scalability
+<li>New moderation and privacy controls
+<li>Invitations
+<li>Autoresponse governors
+<li>Users can now change some of their delivery options globally,
+    for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery
+    status, real name, etc.
+<li>Much better MIME and I18n support in the archiver
+<li>A separate "list moderator" role has been added
+<li>Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users
+    immediately).
+</ul>
+
+Here is a short summary of other features in Mailman.  For details,
+please see the <a href="docs.html">on-line documentation</a>.
+
+<ul>
+<li>Web based list administration for nearly all tasks, including list
+    configuration, moderation (post approvals), management of user
+    accounts.
+<li>Web based subscribing and unsubscribing, and user configuration
+    management.  Users can temporarily disable their accounts, select
+    digest modes, hide their email addresses from other members, etc.
+<li>A customizable <em>home page</em> for each mailing list.
+<li>Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private
+    archives, private membership rosters, and sender-based posting
+    rules.
+<li>Configurable (per-list and per-user) delivery mode
+    <ul><li>Regular (immediate) delivery
+        <li>MIME digest
+        <li>Plain (<a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1153.html">RFC
+        1153</a>) digests
+    </ul>
+<li>Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework.
+    Automatic disposition of bouncing addresses (disable,
+    unsubscribe).
+<li>Integrated spam filters
+<li>Built-in web-based archiving, with hooks for external archivers such as
+    <a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html">MHonArc</a>.
+<li>Integrated Usenet gatewaying.
+<li>Integrated auto-replies.
+<li>Majordomo-style email based commands.
+<li>Multiple list owners and moderators are possible.
+<li>Support for virtual domains.
+<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and most Un*x-like systems, compatible with most
+    web servers and browsers, and most SMTP servers.  Requires Python
+    2.1.3 or newer.
+<li>An extensible mail delivery pipeline.
+<li>High-performance mail delivery, with a scalable architecture.
+</ul>