My partner has been administering several lists here under listproc 8.2 and we have been considering moving to mailman as our list server. His main complaint is that he has been using the subscriber file to store extra information about subscribers under listproc but can't under mailman. How difficult would it be to add a freeform text field associated with an email name that would only be accessible to the list owner or site manager?
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"PP" == Phillip Porch <root@theporch.com> writes:
PP> My partner has been administering several lists here under
PP> listproc 8.2 and we have been considering moving to mailman as
PP> our list server. His main complaint is that he has been using
PP> the subscriber file to store extra information about
PP> subscribers under listproc but can't under mailman. How
PP> difficult would it be to add a freeform text field associated
PP> with an email name that would only be accessible to the list
PP> owner or site manager?Since the data structure that list information gets stored into is just a dictionary (glommed from attributes on the class), you could probably store all kinds of extra information in there. The trick would be hooking it up to the Web interface, but if that's not important, you can do all kinds of things by hacking a little Python into a command line script.
-Barry
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