[Mailman-Developers] my 2cts on Personalization, AOL, performance

[Ricardo]

Hi,

A few things I wanted to respond to.
First of all, I agree that personalization is an important feature for 
certain lists. Especially if your target audience isn't the average 
computer geek. I need it for two reasons: easy unsubscription and 
bulletproof bounce detection (or better: 
reported-as-spam-by-AOL-user-detection). One could argue that users need 
to be educated better, but sometimes that's almost like striving for 
world peace.
I can agree that mailman might be too slow for huge personalized lists, 
but my lists aren't bigger than 3k users... I have been running mailman 
for many years now. In the beginning it was running on an ancient 
Pentium 75 machine, so performance was a big issue for me (I couldn't 
even approve more than 5 posts at a time or else the system could crash 
;) ) but now I have a 2Ghz machine with fast disks at my disposal so 
mailman won't have any trouble sending out those 3000 messages...

Speaking of personalization: what is the main reason it hasn't been 
implemented for digests yet? Simply a lack of time or are there some 
important design issues which make it difficult? If isn't too difficult 
I could try to invest some time it myself to try to get it to work (I'm 
not a python god, but I can manage)

about improving delivery speed: what about implementing LMTP?
(http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc2033.txt)


Regards,

Ricardo.