-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Eiloart Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:51 PM To: Barry Warsaw; Dan MacNeil Cc: Mailman Developers; Stephen J. Turnbull Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] 1-click unsubscribe
<snip> A note on unsubscription: I manage a few lists for small voluntary organisations, and for us it is REALLY important to be able to avoid re-subscribing someone who has unsubscribed themselves. Therefore, it would be better to set their preferences to no-mail, rather than simply delete their records. Also useful to record the date and the fact that it was the subscriber who opted out. A note on small organisations: we have members that don't have email. It would be great to be able to record their postal addresses in some form that could easily be printed to envelope labels. Or, their phone numbers. So that they can also be notified of important events. This would be incredibly useful to small community organisations. </snip> Sounds like what you're describing is a more complete CRM. Personally, I don't think Mailman should head in that direction, there are perfectly good CRM's for NPO's out there (like CiviCRM). I'd like to see Mailman improve support for newsletter style setups, which is sounds like is gaining momentum, but getting into full address information should be left to proper CRM solutions. It would be a long time until Mailman could do the other functions of a CRM well-enough for them to be a good idea for anyone to use. Aaron _______________________________________________ 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
