> >it's changing the list header that new listowners are intimidated by. > > Certainly, I can make a GUI which facilitates creating, editing and mailing > of the list header. Is this something people really need from a GUI, or are > most people quite happy doing this by hand? (see more comments later) I think it's important, less for the GUI (although others care more about that), than for the help that would presumably be built in to such a product. I don't mind editing the list header myself, but I can't remember all the options because I just don't use them enough. > >archive > >maintenance (though this varies by LISTSERV platform and will change when > >L-Soft releases the new archive server code > > I'd prefer to stay away from that one. I understand your reluctance, but I think it would be a highly useful feature. Perhaps in the second release. :-) > >I'm proposing *management* of error notices. Listserv doesn't manage > >them, it just sends them individually. *I* manage them. Would that I > >could buy some software to do that for me. Maybe somebody will develop > >such software. > > Last time I asked, people were _very_ antsy about any program which goes > snooping around a list admin's mailbox looking for error notices and taking > action. Also, with the variety of email packages, I have no idea how I > would write something to read all the different formats. finally, many list > managers use pine, mailx or some other unix mail system, so InfoMagnet would > have to work with them. I don't know of any technical way to do this. Well, the error notices could be sent to a different mailbox, but I agree that all the various formats in use make this nearly impossible. There is a group within the IETF that's working on standardizing a MIME-based format for such notices, so long term there may be some hope. But then LISTSERV could handle the notices, just as it does now for the ones in L-Mail format. > Would people prefer a menu-driven perl-based InfoMagnet LM? That way they > could run it on their VM, VMS and Unix boxes at the command line...and > they'd have perl source to muck with. Not us. Then we'd have to give accounts on the LISTSERV machine to the list owners, whch we definitely do not do now. Also, a lot of people would prefer the GUI.