On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Paul Russell wrote:

>On 6/25/2004 7:52 AM, Stan Horwitz wrote:
>> Paul, I agree. We could definitely use such functionality here. I get
>> asked about that type of issue frequently by my management. Primarily for
>> us, we want to be able to put the name of the list in the ldap entries for
>> a set of users (sort of subscription via ldap) and then send out targetted
>> emails. For example, the head of the math department (or a designee) might
>> want to send an email to everyone in the math department. It would be nice
>> if Listserv could play a role in that functionality.
>
>I would like to see LDAP support added to LISTSERV, but you do not need LDAP
>support in LISTSERV to do what you described. Query the directory to get the
>email addresses from entries which match your criteria, then build and submit
>a LISTSERV DISTRIBUTE job. The whole thing can be scripted and hidden behind
>a web page. This is a general solution that could be used with any type of
>database, not just an LDAP directory, without the need to make any
>LISTSERV-specific changes to the directory/database.

The trouble is that my management is all ga ga over LDAP and that's
what they want to use.