[Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 04, 2010, at 06:34 PM, David Andrews wrote:

>At 11:25 PM 4/1/2010, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>David Andrews writes:
>>
>>  > Some other list software, I believe, has a feature that sends out a
>>  > canned message once a month, such as list rules.  I would like to see
>>  > this in MM3
>>
>>-1.  This is mission creep.  A cron job will serve perfectly well.
>>
>>Something that assists in setting up such cron jobs (and/or
>>generalizes to whatever weirdness Windows does instead of cron jobs)
>>would be good as a contrib module, of course.
>>
>I disagree, not everyone who runs a list has access to the command 
>line, and/or the means or ability to set up a Cron Job, so something 
>through the Web UI would be useful!

This could potentially be a third-party add-on to the wui, but I don't think
it belongs in the core Mailman project.  Mailman certainly shouldn't be adding
any functionality that duplicates cron.

-Barry
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