[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015: brainstorming ideas suitable for beginners?

[Terri Oda]

Honestly, I don't love this idea.  I would be technically feasible with 
VERP, but it edges into features that are very popular for people 
sending spam.


On 2015-02-26 11:32 PM, Ankush Sharma B.Tech. Electronics Engg, 
IIT(BHU), Varanasi (U.P.), INDIA wrote:
> How about having personalized announcement mailing lists ?
>
> A personalized mailing list will allow mailman users to send
> personalized emails to all the list members from a common email
> template.  Suppose I am the manager of a company and I need to ask all
> the workers for a meeting. I want each of my workers to prepare a topic
> to speak on during the meeting. For this I need to send each of them a
> message separately mentioning the topic he/she has to speak on.
>
> Suppose the email /template/ is like this:
>
> *To : <worker-email>*
> *Subject: <sub>*
> *
> *
> *Hello <worker-name>,*
> *
> *
> *Hope you are having fun at <worker-place>. I am arranging a meeting at
> 5 p.m. on Saturday. I want you to speak on <topic> during the meeting.
> So, come prepared for that.*
> *<other-suff>*
> *
> *
> *Best wishes,*
> *
> *
> *Ankush Sharma*
> *Manager*
> *foo-bar*
>
>
> And I have a spreadsheet data on the mailing list server like this:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cAbdSmc1NA-C9IZFjc_zB67qEvgmX8Jr3xYyGxPdwdU/pubhtml
>
> Mailman can have a functionality of flooding the /template/ by using the
> spreadsheet data. The variables in the /template/ (< -- > stuff) would
> be replaced by the corresponding row data in the spreadsheet
> corresponding to the emails of the list members. This can provide great
> flexibility to mailman users who use mailman as announcement list.
>
> Later on, mailman can have the functionality of saving email templates
> and choosing one of them in a certain scenario. Mailing lists can be
> made more personalized and powerful in this way.
>
> Expecting further feedback or suggestions on this idea.
>
> Ankush Sharma
> IIT-BHU,Varanasi
> github.com/black-perl <http://github.com/black-perl>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org
> <mailto:barry at list.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Feb 25, 2015, at 04:12 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
>
>     >I’m looking forward to being able to set and get domainowner and serverowner
>     >(or siteowner or whatever its called). It will allow me to delete lots of
>     >code and there’s no greater joy than deleting code.
>     >
>     >Are you anticipating this will be in V3.0?
>
>     Please file a bug and we'll see. ;)
>
>     Cheers,
>     -Barry
>
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