Re: [siesta-dev] wish list

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From: Richard Clamp
Subject: Re: [siesta-dev] wish list
Date: 12:12 on 24 Sep 2002
On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 11:04 Europe/London, Roger Burton West 
wrote:
>
> * Email-based administration. I don't want to give shell access to
> everybody who's a listmaster on my server, and many of them have 
> cookies
> permanently turned off if they have web browsers at all.
>
> * A storage system which creates one file per list (possibly in 
> addition
> to other things). Forwhy? To avoid having to edit aliases ever again.

My half-formed notion was that nacho could output a fully-formed 
aliases file for all configured lists, which you then include somehow.

The exim configuration magic is cool and all, but I don't want to do 
anything more complex than alias files for the moment, since they're 
everywhere, and fit in my brain.

> * Dunno how good the bounce handling is. How good is it?

Non-existant.

> I strongly suggest that you have at least the option of sending the 
> same
> message to multiple envelope recipients, probably sorted by domain. 
> VERP
> is all very well, but the load on bandwidth is excessive on a large
> mailing list. My own project - which never got off the ground, which is
> why I'm here - was to use VERP for a configurable percentage of
> addressees, with the specific recipients changed over time, so that
> eventually you'd get a VERPed bounce message from an address that was
> causing problems, but you didn't have to make every single message to
> every single subscribe a separate deal.

VERP?  Assume that I'm an RFC-ignorant lazy programmer who just got 
impatient at people half-planning but never implementing MLMs :)

-- 
Richard Clamp <richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>


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