On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
I'm actually thinking of moving the membership data completely out of Mailman and having mailman act as a slave to an outside system.
- think of an integrated community, where you want a single subscriber interface, but multiple systems, including (but not limited to) a mail list system.
I'm going to be building this very thing--we've got an incredibly detailed system for orders/content management/etc, and what mailing lists the individuals are subscribed to should be manageable from inside that system. Really what that means is that I want the functionality of Mailman, but I want the database to be the mysql one that the other system uses.
I won't be able to get started on this for another month or so, but knowing that someone has thought about it gives me warm fuzzies. Any pitfalls I should be aware of?
Dale Newfield Dale@Newfield.org
"My country, right or wrong" is not a cogent argument. It is one step away from "I was only following orders."