On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:31:11 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:
At 7:18 PM -0500 12/14/00, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
It's not the MLM's problem (not to say it isn't the problem of the simple-minded qrunner script we distribute and enable by default). All I need to do is document the file format for the outbound queue files and site administrators can take it from there.
except I see this as still part of the MLM, since it's the tool doing the MLM->MTA handoff, not part of the MTA itself.
We need to define what an MLM is and does: We're entering a scary territory which goes far beyond the standard modesl of subscriber-based list to more dynamic work-flow and collaborative flow oriented entities where really the only thing the MLM does is prove a named membership list, which it will yield on query after passing some authentication mechanism such that the membership list is associated with a particular message.
Actual delivery of messages, MTAs, transports, authentication mechanisms, membership definitions, account definitions, etc, are really outside of its purview. All an MLM does is provide names which can be associated with lists of addresses, and a means for associating those lists of addresses with a message.
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