s...@pobox.com writes: > Stephen> If Mailman can do it *better* than cron, that would be another > Stephen> matter. That point is arguable, but my personal preference > Stephen> would be to provide a generic feature that both cron and other > Stephen> possible schedulers could take advantage of. > > In fact, it is quite easy to argue that with a programmatic interface and > access to cron my "spread out the pain" request is better implemented > there.
"There" being in Mailman itself? Or in cron? (It's not obvious to me whether Mailman could do this better internally or not; of course I'd try to do it in cron before looking for a feature in Mailman, but Jack's mileage would vary, I'm sure. :-) > The monthly mailing becomes a daily mailing which only sends > reminder notices to a fraction of the users. Indeed, or weekly, or even 4x daily, and providing that kind of flexibility of timing is something that cron has a lot of existing support for. OTOH, somebody still has to write the code to manage the partial lists. However, that code might be useful for other purposes (eg, if a user who refers to the member list page often wants it split into 4 equal-sized pages rather than 27 pages of wildly varying size). (The above is what I mean by "generic features", and an example of how they might be applied.) _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
