If you're going to write your own, are you going to use wapp? Sounds like a
good use case to me.

You could use some open source forum software, plenty around and some of
them even support sqlite as a backend, on the other hand it's all written
in PHP ...
There's also Slack and Discord if you like that sort of thing.



On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> On 6/13/18, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@bec.de> wrote:
> >
> > Does the patch from
> > https://www.dragonsreach.it/2014/05/03/adding-recaptcha-
> support-to-mailman/
> > work?
> >
>
> I have not.  On the other hand, that patch has apparently been
> available for 4 years and has not yet be folded into the official GNU
> MailMan.  Is Mailman still supported?
>
> I've been a subscriber to the GNU MailMan mailing list for a long
> while.  Traffic is very light.  One gets the idea that it is not
> actively maintained.
>
> Other issues with GNU MailMan:
>
> (1) Only works with Apache.  Or, at least, I have only been able to
> get it to work with apache.  That means I have to run a separate
> apache server just to operation MailMan, whereas the rest of SQLite
> and Fossil uses a non-apache solution.
>
> (2) We keep having problems with evil subscribers harvesting the email
> addresses of innocent posters and send them porn-spam via private
> email.  Since the porn-spam contain the subject line of the original
> posting, it often makes it through spam filters.  MailMan has not
> effective solution to this.
>
> (3) GNU MailMan is a pile of Python, spread out across many
> directories in magical places all over the filesystem.  It is sparsely
> documented (that I have been able to find) and difficult to work on.
>
> For all of the above reasons, I think the time has come to abandon GNU
> MailMan for something better - something that I have more control
> over.
>
> I'm currently writing my own.  But I am open to suggestions.
>
> If anyone reading this wants to call my on skype and talk me through
> patching GNU MailMan to get it working again, I am open to that idea
> too.
>
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