[Users] Alliance Call reading material on next crowd funder: Zimbra Mailing Lists

[Wendell Jones]

> I am thinking about using Zimbra distribution lists and extend those
> with mailing list functionality.

Wow, Barry!  That seems pretty ambitious.

For our use as a mailing list, there would need to be a few additional
capabilities beyond what you describe.  (Noah added some of what I was
going to say before I could finish this)  See below...


> When a user clicks for example `Devel` or `Users` they will see a form to
> subscribe/unsubscribe from the clicked list.

We would need the option to have the list open for subscriptions or not.


> A confirmation email is used for subscribe/unsubscribe.

In addition, we would need the ability to require administrator approval
for new subscriptions.


> List archive will not be implemented, suggest to use Twitter API or such .

We would need to have an archive of the list.  Perhaps it could be done
similar to the e-mail archiving with amavis.  Going on what Noah has in
his e-mail about archiving, I was thinking that an archive account with
automatic read-only sharing with subscribers and optional public sharing
might be sufficient.  That would also address one of my main gripes about
mailman; the lack of any archive search capability.

I pretty much agree with everything else that Noah suggested.

I look forward to the discussion about this today.

Wendell