Hello,

After consulting with Listserv support, they suggested I ask these forums my questions so here goes.
We are considering / investigating a web front end and customizations to Listserv to provide our entire staff easy access to a subset of our Listserv lists (to opt-in or opt-out) that would make it easy to use and cool/edgy.

We aren't finding much that would make interactive queries possible so that the web site would provide:

-          All (or a subset of) lists that the user could subscribe to (with a description of each list)

-          Current list subscriptions for a user

-          An easy way to subscribe or unsubscribe to a list (like with a checkbox button next to the list name)

See an example below we found on the web we'd like to replicate/customize internally.

One problem we see is getting interactive / timely (1-2 sec or less) responses from Listserv to determine if someone is a member of a list or not to check the "Already subscribed" button.

Some questions we came up with are:

-          Would reconfiguring/setting up Listserv to use DBMS (SQL) and querying SQL directly solve this?

-          If we setup a separate SQL database that this website would query directly, what would the best way to keep that database populated with current list memberships (like a script that would run several times a day to update the database)?

-          Has anyone done this before and could provide some guidance, examples, code, etc.?

We also attempted to use TCPGUI and compiling lcmdx.c to query Listserv but it seems very limited.


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Thanks for any help / guidance here.  Appreciate it!

Rob Sevick
Active Directory, Messaging and VMware Administrator
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Office - (443) 778-7854
Fax - (301) 362-8209

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