[phpNewsList-devel] Current phpNewsList features, the way to 1.3 and future plans...

[Ivo M. <ei...@us...>]

Today I've coded a bit on phpNewsList.

I've added a new feature called the "Manage blacklisted members page"
and I have fine tuned the confirm process task. All the latest changes
are available in the CVS.

For now the phpNewsList features in the latest stable version (1.2) are:

	. List all available mailing lists on a system.
	. Show the number of subscribed members for each list.
	. Show the total number of subscribed members on all lists.
	. Find and remove a member from all available mailing lists.
	. Generate the news-list using members from other mailing lists.
	. Empty the generated news-list.

Version 1.3 will add this features:

	. Introduce the concept of blacklisting: Members listed in the
          blacklist and available in at least one of the mailing list
	  will be exclude from the news-list during generation.

	. Users may auto blacklist themself using the public interface:
          http://foo.bar.org/phpnewslist/public.php

	. Auto blacklisting requires confirmation using the
          Random Confirm Key (RCK) sent via E-Mail to the user.

	. The phpNewsList Admin will be able to get a list of
          blacklisted and pending-blacklisted users -- He will also
	  be able to unblacklist an user (Is this useful?).

	. Blacklisted user are handled through PEAR DBA 0.9.2 (Which is
          integrated directly into phpNewsList) in an external file
	  database (data/blacklist.dat).

Ideas for future phpNewsList releases are:

	. Support for non-Unix like systems, e.g. Windows servers.

	. Web interface to send news-letters directly through the
	  phpNewsList web interface (Proposed by Felix Nippert).

	. More and less. Ideas?

Well then, that was an little overview of what phpNewsList ist actually
capable of and what we expect to do in the future.

I'm currently running phpNewsList 1.2 on a production server with more
than 10 mailing lists (~8.000 subcribed members) to generate monthly
news-letters.

I work on the development process of phpNewsList 1.3 on my local Debian
based web server. What about you? Where did you get phpNewsList running?

Thanks for feedback.
Have a nice Saturday night,

 I.

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