[Mailman-Developers] announcement list option

[Brian Edmonds]

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I've mentioned this before, but having used Mailman for longer I'd like
to bring it up again, as I think I have a better grasp on how it might
be integrated with the existing software.  Unfortunately I still haven't
learned Python, so my ability to hack the code myself is somewhat
limited.

Anyhow, in some of my current lists, which I'd like to migrate to
mailman, I have them set up with the usual regular and digest options,
but also have an announce option.  Mail sent to the announce list goes
to all regular subscribers, as well as immediately to all digest
subscribers (rather than being digested), and also to a third list of
announcement only subscribers.  In order to migrate these lists to
Mailman I simply have to have this functionality.

I would thus envision the following changes:
 1) An announce list option added to the subscription and member
    management HTML interfaces (and subscription database, obviously).
    Operation when both digest and announce are selected would be as if
    just digest were selected, since announce is already a subset of
    digest.
 2) An option on the regular list config interface (or an additional
    interface perhaps, like the digest one) to enable or disable the
    announce option, much like digest can be.  Also options to enable or
    disable posting priviledges to the announce list (some are
    controlled, at least one I run is on the honour system), as well as
    specifying a list of accepted posters.  Non-priviledged posters
    would be held for approval using the usual mechanism.
 3) A flag to the posting software that indicates a post is an
    announcement, which would then be sent immediately to all non-nomail
    subscribers.  An update to newlist to prompt for inclusion of an
    -announce alias (which would pass this new flag) would also be a
    good idea.

Brian.

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