I couldn't find anything that looks like this when I browsed the help/faq on the web site. I'd be interested to hear the following example of a mailing list can be supported:
I want to issue a series (perhaps 200, maybe never-ending) of emails to subscribers, let's say "Writing VBA for Word from scratch". You can imagine that the first email would be "Recording & running a macro" followed by the next mailing "Editing a macro", then "Writing a macro from scratch", gradually working my way up to "Developing an application that manages source code VBA libraries" and beyond. Truly MASSIVE stuff out the back end. A subscriber to this correspondence course (for that is what it is) would want to start at lesson 1 and do that lesson before progressing to lesson 2, no matter that the rest of the crowd are variously as far as lessons 37, 48, 152 and right up there with me at lesson 1,217 (I know, that's 60 years down the road, but you get the idea). ====================================================================================== TIMED RELEASE ============= A subscriber to the corrsepondence course (or release of chapters of an on-line story or ...) wants to say "I know I've started late, but anyway, send me an email just once a week", (or once every ten days, or on the 27th of each month after my company's year-end is complete). Or a subscriber wants to say "Send me the next lesson as soon as I've issued a reply saying that I've completed this one". Bright students can work through the material at their own pace and quickly join the people on the cutting edge. ====================================================================================== As far as I can see, mailing lists IN GENERAL release mail as soon as it is posted or moderated, exceptions for vacations notwithstanding. I don't see anything that allows the SUBSCRIBER to work through existing material at their own pace. I believe that the need for some sort of paced reading will accelerate as more people work from home, or train in their own time. From the technical point of view there would probably be more load on your end. Your off-peak processing would include a review of what's scheduled to go out today. That would involve accumulating a list of all automatic timed release mesages scheduled to go to individuals, together with any messages resulting from the "reply with the next one" suggested above. However, if it's true that no-one else is doing it, it's a niche that might explode. http://www.realage.com/ (RealAge) is a web site that issues tips for healthy living. I wouldn't mind working my way through from the get-go, but at my own pace. I'm 56 last week, and can't suddenly switch to chewing lettuce and climbing the stairs while massaging my scalp, after a lifetime eating cheap ice-cream while writing programs in front of a 17" monitor, but I can take on a small increment in change every few days. If you'd like a guinea-pig, I'd be happy to be it. As you might guess I have scads of training material in Word/VBA (amongst others) and a contact list of over 1,500 people. I'd leap at the chance to start a SUBSCRIBER-TIMED correspondence course. Christopher Greaves (416) 621-9348 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.vif.com/users/cgreaves/homepage.htm ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
