[Mailman-Developers] Re: Looking for Yahoo style email list

Mike Holderness mch at cix.compulink.co.uk
Fri Sep 10 18:51:00 CEST 2004


In-Reply-To: <20040907100110.9A2651E4009 at bag.python.org>
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 04:38:23 +0200 Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> 
wrote:

> At 1:52 PM -0500 2004-09-04, Paul wrote:
> 
> >  I am looking for something that can be both an email list and a BBS
> >  style web page like Yahoo Groups. I want an email list that if the
> >  user chooses can read and post to the list from a web page like the
> >  Yahoo Groups.
> 
>       Mailman doesn't do this.  It'll handle the mailing list side 
> reasonably well, but the BBS style interface is not included.
> 
> >  Can Mailman be adapted?
> 
>       Probably.  Can you write code in Python?
> 
> >  Does an open source solution exist?
> 
>       If you find one, please let us know.
> 
> -- 

I know someone who hacked up just what you want. He wouldn't 
release it to me, 'cos it "wasn't tidy enough". But I could 
have another try...

Mike



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