[Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 11:36 PM -0800 11/21/00, J C Lawrence wrote:

>While pursueing the LServe game we need to not lose sight of the
>little guys running a couple lists for their club of 20-some model
>train enthusiasts.

If we even want to be in teh LServe game -- but this nis one of the 
neat things of the pure plug-in universe. if someone wants a big 
muther listserve, plug in the fancy module. If they want simple 
subscription systems, plug in the easy subscriber setup.

you have to be very careful not to try to build A THING that is 
everythign for everyone, but you sure can build a framework that 
contains the capability to build things  that allow you to build a 
system catered to each system's needs. And maybe we don't ship all of 
those variations initially (or ever!), but if someone wants it, we've 
at elast built a system where they can write it for themselves (and 
us).

Lots of sites won't want my muther subscriber system from hell 
module, but there's no reason at all we can't take mailman's existing 
system and turn it into a "simple" subscriber system. Or write one 
that 100% mimics majordomo doing e-mail only. Adn in fact, for 
something like this, having two or three variations to test the API 
would be great. And it'd help us prove the architecture and keep us 
honest, so the different modules don't cheat by looking over each 
other's shoulders...

If folks want to see a successful (so far) project taht's doing this, 
I think you need look no further than Gnome, and its underlying X 
windows basis.

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