[Mailman-Developers] Re: Future of pipermail?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 2:26 AM -0500 11/22/00, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

>This would have saved us weeksandweeksandweeks of development on the
>system we built that had Mailman as a critical component.
>
>Anything that is *using* Mailman as just-another-moving-part-among-many
>faces the memebership management problem and it is nasty,nasty,nasty.

If we end up doing the authentication widget, I want it to ship with 
a set of modules and/or interfaces. That would include one that does 
personal home pages, surveys, an interface to mailman, an interface 
to a web forum, an LDAP interface of some sort for external directory 
lookup and authentication purposes, and a few other toys.

With it and a few key tools, you can easily do 90% of Yahoo, minus 
the big muther sets of data, but when it's done, you're very close to 
a yahoo portal with clubs, IRC, egroups and some other tools all 
rolled into a single cohesive beast -- and it'll scale, and it will 
be extensible through a standard interface.

Assuming, of course, what I want to do works and I don't botch the 
architecture...

(and what I find scary is I don't see *anything* that is technically 
a huge stretch. it's all engineering, not magic...

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