At 12:07 PM -0500 2006-01-03, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I'm actually thinking we need /less/ magic in command line scripts, > especially for typical user and admin tasks, because I think > increasingly, fewer people have access to the command line (or know what > to do with it when they've got it).
The command-line scripts are not for your average joe-user sites. The command-line scripts are for people like me, Chuq, Skip, and anyone else who operates or may want to operate a larger site, and has not written such a tool for themselves -- at least, not yet. That is, unless you can build an admin interface that can deal with hundreds of thousands of queued messages without killing both the server and the client. > I'm keen on the idea of making Mailman access available via xmlrpc or > somesuch, and then we can provide scripts that can be run on the client > w/o requiring a browser. I'm not opposed to that, but I'd want to make sure those kinds of tools could also be run on the server where the list is hosted. >> IMAP would probably be an improvement over what we have now, >> assuming you've got a decent IMAP client -- that's not necessarily a >> valid assumption. But my experience is that IMAP falls down too >> (especially depending on the IMAP server implementation), and you >> need something even scalable when that happens. > > True. (Aside: why do all mail clients suck so much? :) All mail servers suck, too. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp