[Mailman-Developers] eSquire mailing list manager

[John Viega]

>     Features that might be of interest for Mailman:
> 
>     * There are more classes of users.  On a moderated list, some
> users can be set to have their posts automatically approved.  There's
> also a list of banned users, who can follow the list but can't post.  

You can do these things in Mailman, but it's more centralized.  There
is a listbox for each of these two things.  Which do you think is more
useful?  Or both?

>     * Another list subscription policy: eSquire has open and closed
> lists as Mailman does, and adds a third level in-between, where any
> current subscriber can add new subscribers to the list.

Good idea.

>     * Unsubscribes can require approval (useful for work-related
> lists)

Good idea.

>     * You can create autoresponders.  This is really orthogonal to
> mailing list handling, but you can create an autoresponder address
> which forwards any mail sent to it, and returns a response.  For
> example, the author's e-mail is 'rrognlie', so he set up a forwarder
> for 'rognlie' to give people the correct address.

Is it as sophisticated as vacation?  Ie, does it keep a database of
who it's responded to recently to avoid mail loops, and the like?

So did you tell this guy about Mailman?  What did he say?

John