Re: Integrating a List-Serv into a CMS

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:12:24PM -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
> Austin, Darrel wrote:
> >Another 'how-to' question...
> >
> >We've been building our own CMS using ASP.net
> >
> >We'd now like to add some list-serv capabilities. It's serve two purposes:
> >
> >1) Traditional list-servs (like this one)
> >2) a 'this page has been updated' list, where when a page is updated, we
> >could trigger a message to a specific list 'watching' that page.
> 
> If I was going to implement this, I'd create an RSS feed for individual 
> pages and then hook that up to an application that can send email based 
> on an RSS feed.  I think it would be about the same amount of time to 
> implement, but you'll be able to leverage that RSS for other purposes in 
> the future.

That would also let you just let people subscribe directly to the feed
instead of the email list.

I've had some pretty good luck with integrating Zope and Mailman, but
they're both python-based.

Mailman is far and away the best / easiest listserv package I've
worked with.

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