It would be useful to extend the Membership Management page to support sync_members.

We use mailman to run a number of members-only lists for a professional society. The membership database is kept on a separate system, and lists of current members are produced for the various lists at regular intervals. It would be easier for our non-technical office staff to keep the mailing list memberships in sync with the main database if they could upload the member list through the Web rather than having to upload the file with FTP and use sudo and shell commands to do the synching.

We could mass-delete and mass-subscribe, but it would be more convenient to do it in one step. Also, for some of the lists, new members should receive notification that they have been subscribed, but carry-over members should not get such notification. The only way to do that with add_members is to add in two steps or to make two files with members to be deleted and members to be added, leaving the carry-over members subscribed.

-- Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs