[Mailman-Developers] Hi! I'll be your intern for the summer :)

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 29 June 2006 02:36:10 -0700 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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> On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:37 AM, emf wrote:
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>>> How about this for extra:
>>>
>>> 1) Display a list of ALL members - just their names and addresses.
>>> 2) Delete ALL the list members with one click - OK, and maybe a
>>> confirm
>>> dialog!
>>
>> Hm. This comes slightly in opposition to the desire to have a more
>> user-centered mailman interface; what happens if a user changes their
>> preferences and you re-build the entire list?
>>
>> An associated problem is what happens to users that are subbed to
>> > 1 list?
>>
>> I recognize this may not be an issue in your specific case, I just
>> think
>> that issues like these will be more of a deal when we don't keep
>> "members" in per-list silos.
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> Definitely, and what about when list memberships come from external
> rosters (e.g. external systems or generated on demand)?
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Well, then I'd want an interface to delete all the members of a roster. In 
the case of the lists that I'm concerned with, those lists would would only 
have one roster anyway.


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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex