It's only documentation, so why would you want it?

I swear, Sympa has the worst fucking documentation of any goddamned software I've ever used. I'd rather view /dev/random with Internet Explorer then try to figure out what the hell this software does.

Example: List creation. Since Sympa is mailing list software, this would seem to be pretty basic. It is if you're using the web management feature, which they document. But if you're not? Well, now, why would you do such a thing? Are you a Communist or something?

Here's what I know: there's a Perl script here that creates the Sympa config files for various lists as needed. Then these lists magically show up. This appears to be related to the task manager portion of Sympa, which seems to create lists for the new config files. Or maybe Sympa checks the config files when incoming email comes in, and that's how it works. Either way, it sure as hell isn't documented anywhere; not for the older version we have, nor for the newer version (which seems to be a nothing more than a wiki dump, with all its attendant lack of organization).

God, this is irritating.