Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?
I am quite aware of the definition of spam (in fact, I have a master's thesis on the subject).
What I'm concerned about is that in the past, mail merges (which is what you're describing) is a feature that has often been requested by people doing marketing lists. It's not a subset of users I'm eager to attract, since a few bad apples could cause some unfortunate fallout for Mailman as users start marking messages as spam and, inevitably, sending us angry messages. (As the person who wrote the 2.1 documentation, I can tell you that I already get these on occasion as upset folk will send to basically any address they can find associated with the project.)
It's not that it's a bad feature in isolation. But there are so *many* potential features for Mailman, and I'd like to see ideas that are less socially problematic get implemented first.
Terri
On 2015-02-26 11:52 PM, Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA wrote:
I realize the feature I proposed earlier is more of a commercial feature and might not be be so useful for Mailman as you mentioned it's pitfalls.
Are there other directions that I should think in? I am good with Python, Javascript, HTML5.
I was wondering if there is a sort of tool that generates summaries for mailing list activity and charts like number of users, number of active users, etc. Would something like this be a good idea or is it already done?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Terri Oda <terri@toybox.ca> wrote:
On 02/27/2015 12:24 AM, Terri Oda wrote:
And there are many customer relations managements systems available that already do this kind of thing. Mailman doesn't need to do it.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
I realize the feature I proposed earlier is more of a commercial feature and might not be be so useful for Mailman as you mentioned it's pitfalls.
Are there other directions that I should think in? I am good with Python, Javascript, HTML5.
I was wondering if there is a sort of tool that generates summaries for mailing list activity and charts like number of users, number of active users, etc. Would something like this be a good idea or is it already done?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Terri Oda <terri@toybox.ca> wrote:
On 02/27/2015 12:24 AM, Terri Oda wrote:
And there are many customer relations managements systems available that already do this kind of thing. Mailman doesn't need to do it.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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