On Tuesday 26 February 2002 16:52, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
"John" == John Morton jwm@plain.co.nz writes:
John> I find this feature is handy for small, private lists.Sure. I have a couple that could be handled that way, but we just defaulted them all off. We post the names and addresses (they're basically lists of project staff) on the home page, with mailtos and fancy formatting, instead. When the staff forget who handles what, they use that interface, just like the clients do. (It's voluntary, they are warned about harvesting; nobody has refused yet.)
Unless the membership data that mailman stores has suddenly got a lot better documented since I last looked, I assume you're basically maintaining a separate list for your roster. I'd rather have one source of member data.
John> I'd rather it was still around and just disabled by default John> with warning stickers all over it than we dumb down mailmanTo me, it's not really an issue of dumbing down. It would be easy enough to do this with a separate app, so the question is "should a deprecated feature continue to encruft MM?"
I agree that when Mailman has a nice, well documented data schema and a datastore that accepts concurrent client access, then this sort of feature ought to be deprecated from the MM core.
John