[Mailman-Users] Re: RFE

[David Gibbs]

"Ed" <ed at easent.net> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.2.20030107132628.034a6ab0 at mail.easent.net...
> The import facility is critical to delivering targeted content within the
> message distribution.  Being able to import the results of a -HTTP GET- to
> a URL goes a long way towards that, especially if it will allow you to
pass
> parameters on the URL.  Also, make the return an "object" so you can
> perform operations on the object like sub-strings so you could use other
> functionality like "skip" this user or add some other content block based
> on something in the return.

But that is not, IMHO, what Mailman is designed to do.

What you are talking about is a bulk mailer ... not a mailing list system.

Again, my opinion ... but Mailman is designed to facilitate email based
discussion forums ... not blasting email to a huge number of people at once.

david