On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:15:37AM +0100, mark david mcCreary wrote:
> While a web interface is a nice option, a mailing list is always going
> to need to be operated with email messages at a minimum.
I strongly agree. This is especially true in the case of handicapped
users whose tools (mostly) tend to work with text-only interfaces.
> list-request [...]
> list-on [...]
> list-off [...]
> list-change [...]
> list-switch [...]
> list-vacation [...]
> list-help [...]
> list-html [...]
> list-text [...]
Hmmm. That's 9 addresses per mailing list, which is going to mean
a heck of a lot of aliases for sites that operate hundreds of mailing lists.
I see what you're trying to do: put the directive into the name of
of the address. But the end-user still has to know the directive name
(e.g. "vacation") in order to accomplish the task.
I'm not sure I see why this is a win over a single address for
list administration to which directives are sent. Especially since,
if they forget or mistype a directive (e.g. "modify" instead of "change"),
their mail will bounce -- as opposed to what will happen if it reaches
a MLM sitting at a single address, which will at least respond and
tell them that it doesn't understand.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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