[Phpgroupware-developers] mailing list (was adressbook-normalization)

[Brandon]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:18:57PM -0800, Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r) wrote:
> I agree that this would be the best way to go for larger mailing list
> needs. 
> 
> However, I think we should still allow a way for a user to define small
> mailing lists from their addressbook just as you can in many other email
> programs. It would be very limited and simply take your users "group" as
> the to address and replace that with the list of addresses that are in
> that group. All of the addresses would show up in the To: field and as
> such would show that it is not a real mailing list tool. Just a "mail to
> this predefined list of people" function
> 
> Seek3r
Isn't this really two different things, if I define a mail group in my
addressbook, it's really only for me to use.  Whereas a mailing list
is for all the users on the list to use.  As for using mailman, that's
fine, but one of the things missing from most mailing list apps I've
experimented with is an easy to use and search archive.  Something
that shows each message individually, sorted by month or something,
and allows searching would be nice.  Yahoo groups has nice archiving,
but major reliability issues.

Brandon

> 
> Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, there is demand for mailing lists. The email code part
> > > of this is not a problem, the question is what app should
> > > handle the mailing lists.
> > 
> > Many things that are quite trivial for small lists become much
> > more difficult than you would expect for big mailing lists. In
> > the GNu system, we have a web-based application for handling
> > these things: GNU Mailman, see http://list.org
> > 
> > I propose that instead of starting a new mailing list program,
> > it would be much better to add an XML-RPC interface to Mailman.
> > 
> > > I suggest that since the addressbook already has email
> > > address, and a mailing list is juat a collection of email
> > > addresses, then the addressbook app should handle the creation
> > > and storing of mailing lists.
> > 
> > I propose that the addressbook app would talk to Mailman via
> > XML-RPC for this.
> > 
> > Greetings, Norbert.
> > 
> > --
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> > Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet   (near Zurich, Switzerland)
> > Tel +41 1 972 20 59       Fax +41 1 972 20 69      http://thinkcoach.com
> > Your own domain with all your Mailman lists: $15/month  http://cisto.com
> > 
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