(Hi Chris,) That's sound like a great idé! I suppost it would be integrated with the Portal Toolkit membership management as well?
The idea is that you would retreive Zope membership and Mailman membership from a single relational storage. This is especially important with really large sites. So yes it would be integrated.
Off course!
ZCatalog integration wouldn't be too hard, honestly.
Probably not :-)
You could probably us ZClient to bang each message in as it shows up, and instantiate a ZClass. WE've index 18,500 messages in ZCatalog on just a regular desktop Linux box (nothing fancy, mayb 128Mb RAM, though I think 64MB), and retreival time is on the order of 1/10th - 1/4 second for most searches. Now the actual indexing was much more expensive, but done one at a time, it shouldn't be a major issue.
So that how it's done. Thanx!
Note that what we're talking about wouldn't be for managing list options, just for membership.
Ok.
//johan