--On 21 June 2006 23:45:49 +0100 Matthew Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:37:36PM -0400, emf wrote: >> > 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! > >> Perhaps something that might be more appropriate would be a "member >> differ", wherein you upload a list of email addresses, and it shows you >> the list of emails that were on the list but aren't now, and those that >> would be added, and gives you the option to either accept all the >> changes or selectively modify them. > > This sounds like the command-line "sync_members" program. I've > been meaning to add a web interface to that for a while, but > haven't managed to get around to it. Yes, that's exactly it. In fact, I use sync_members to sync some student and staff lists with our personnel database. However, there are some lists that need to be synced occasionally with - for example - excel spreadsheets that belong to people without access to our servers. > I guess it depends on what you use Mailman for. In then general > internet-user-subscribes-themselves-mailing-list it's great. For a > University with central management of some lists, it isn't quite > what is needed all the time. > > One thing that happens each year here for some lists is that all > list members of "course-year2" get moved to "course-year3", > "course-year1" to "course-year2", and new members added to > "course-year1". I can do this easily from the command line with a > "list_members | sync_members", but I'd really prefer the owners to > be able to do it themselves. Another way of managing that is to name the lists after the year that the student enrolled. For example course-2004, course-2005. That way you only need to handle the occasional student who suspends studies for a year, or something. If you like, you can create aliases (in your MTA config) like course-year1 for the list names and just move the pointers at the relevant time. > Which reminds me, another thing I've been wanting to add is > "download members as text file" (basically the same as 1 above), > which would go together with the sync_members option. > > Matthew -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
