On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote:
Hmm, would anyone else be interested in the option to "merge" x-posted mailings... what I guess I mean is that I'm on a bunch of python.org lists, and when things get crossposted, I get like 400 copies of each message... it'd be nice to figure out a way to only get ONE copy :-)
This would be one reason to have an object database to keep track of what gets posted where. I think this sort of thing is likely in a new architecture for mailman, using and as components for a zope framework. (An issue here is whether zope's new relaxation of the attribution requirement, and Open Source certification, will satisfy stallman for gnu-yness - if so, it'd make it easy to integrate mailma and zope more closely, exploit bobopos/zopepos, etc.)
Ken