[Mailman-Users] List features and wish list

[Jim McNelly]

Greetings,

This is a list moderator of the US Composting Council Discussion list (650 
members) here with some suggestions and comments.

I would like the ability to have the bozo bucket of restricted posters to 
be sent something other than the fearsome and insulting "forbidden sender" 
message.

This would be to run a list where the bozo bucket is large and the approved 
posters is small, but not fully moderated-for-approval.  The message should 
be able to state "held for moderator approval".

If I switch over to a moderator approval mode and put a large number of 
users into the approved status, what message will go out to the poster?  I 
hope not the "forbidden sender" message.  Are there limits to the number of 
names in the various columns?

I would like to be able to capture the directory of members all at once in 
a single database rather than having to cut and paste, screen by screen.

How about adding the ability to filter out "out of office" and other 
autoreplies in the administrivia section, or for that matter, making the 
criteria manageable by the moderator.  I would also like to kill certain 
threads in the header that are off topic.

How about an easy banner menu for putting in HTML into sponsor footers?

I would like to make the archive a subscriber access page.  I would also 
like to add advertising on the archive page.  How do I set up a password or 
approved e-mail system for accessing the archive?  How about making the 
entire archive searchable, not just the month that is grouped?  Do I have 
to turn the archive into one large database to make it searchable?

I pay my ISP to host Mailman.  How do you guys make any money doing this?

That's it for the moment.

Thanks



Jim McNelly
List Manager
US Composting Council Discussion Group
jim at composter.com
www.compostingcouncil.org