[consulting] the Ultimate forum based Malinglist Manager

[Boris Mann]

On 30-Dec-05, at 10:53 AM, Allie Micka wrote:

> For what it's worth, the solution proposed, and the one I think  
> we're planning to build at CivicActions is NOT MLM-specific.  The  
> approach is to break out the functionality so that you can use any  
> MLM, but build to ezmlm first (because that's what I already know)

Gerhard has moved this discussion over to the development list, which  
is where this discussion veered off to.

A useful exercise here, I think, is talking about the requirements/ 
user scenarios that would make use of various forum/list functions.  
As I stated before, the main usage demand we're seeing at this point  
is newsletter functionality, which is met nicely by simplenews -- a  
few hundred people signed up (maybe 500? not sure what the upper  
limit is....call it less than 1000 for simplicity) and monthly mailouts.

If you look at the Yahoo Groups model, there are many, many small  
lists (< 50 people). A "pure" Drupal/PHP solution would probably fit  
this very nicely...call it simplelist. IMHO, even things like  
automated bounce handling are optional for that level.

Allie and others have talked about the need for high end scalability.  
I guess that looks like 1000+ users? I imagine there are many  
challenges with lists that size.

Can others talk about real user scenarios/needs?

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