Re: Status of mj2 development?

--- "Steven W. Orr" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, Sep 12th 2006 at 08:14 -0700, quoth Erik
> Pearson:
> 
> =>
> =>
> =>--- Michael Yount <[email protected]> wrote:
> =>
> =>> Erik Pearson wrote:
> =>> > 2. extended user information: I would need to
> have
> =>> > real names for each subscriber, and perhaps
> store
> =>> > other information.
> =>> >   
> =>> Real names are supported now, but storing other
> =>> information would 
> =>> probably require code changes.
> =>
> =>I've noticed that real names are supported during
> =>subscription, but I didn't see a way of adding a
> real
> =>name later when editing the subscription list.
> 
> If someone is [email protected] and you want to change it
> to 
> Bozo J. Clown <[email protected]>
> 
> just do this
> 
> default user Bozo J. Clown <[email protected]>
> changeaddr [email protected]

Thanks. I'd also seen this in the Change Settings page
under "New Address". In any case, I think it would be
great if at least the web interface specifically
allowed for the entry of at least the name as a
separate field. This gets into the "majordomo is only
for geeks" category. 

> 
> =>> > 4. Need to be able to search the archives.
> =>> >   
> =>> Using what search engine?
> =>
> =>Using mj2 of course! No, seriously, I see no
> reason
> =>why mj2 shouldn't be able to search its own
> archives.
> =>There may be scalability issues, but for small
> lists
> =>performance shouldn't be an issue. If
> searchability is
> =>there, performance can always be addressed later.
> =>
> =>Seriously, archives without search?
> 
> I would love this capability also. Any web interface
> even if it's just 
> running grep would be wonderful.
> 
>