[Mailman-Developers] Users, Bounces, and Virtual Domains (was (no subject))

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:59:41 -0500 
Barry A Warsaw <barry@digicool.com> wrote:

> Here's another complication: are the delivery options set
> per-address or per-list?  Maybe I want all deliveries to "barry at
> wooz" to be digests.  Maybe I want lists A, B, and C to be regular
> deliveries.

We can generalise this problem into insolvability.  

Arguably customisation at the list level is the lowest common
demoninator (another other config can be built from there), so we
should do that.  This is especially pleasant as, should somsone want
to do something else they can just take replace the membership tools
and do their own thing to provide theiur own model.

Repeat after me:

  Mailman is not trying solve all problems!  

  Mailman is trying to provide a toolkit such that users can solve
  problems in ways they prefer!

We're providing a toolkit, a set of relationships, and a reference
implementation of how they *might* be related an installed in
practice.  From there its up to SysAdms and end users.

CVR> As a side note -- if we do this, we need to make sure we can
CVR> assign different addresses to different lists, all under the
CVR> same account.

> Yup, absolutely, which is why I posed the config option question
> above.

Note: We need to allow account customisation for accounts we
maintain *AND* for accounts that external agencies maintain.  We
also need to allow lists to be populated both with accounts that can
be customised, and accounts that can't (eg corporate addresses and
outside subscriptions).

I actually acount at the point that I think Mailman shouldn't have a
default membership implementation, but again, just one or more
reference implementations.

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