Developers of Sympa

[John Douglass <address@concealed>]

Three things that I'd like to see within Sympa are:

1) List Expire

The ability for the system to expire lists if they are not maintained. 
Perhaps a solution might be to include a task that runs nightly to look 
at the "Last Updated" timestamp in the config and if older than 
[setting] days, ping the owner asking them to update the file (which 
resets the system). If older than [setting2], the listmaster and owner 
are e-mailed asking the owner to update the file, finally after 
[setting3] days, the list is closed (not purged).

I'll play with adding this code, but I'm not that great at system 
internals. (Like how I would close a list from a script), maybe someone 
could offer some insights into this process.

2) Owner Remind

Similar to the "remind" process of the subscribers, reminding people 
that they are owners periodically and if they do not confirm, listmaster 
is alerted that a list has become "rogue". Many times, lists are 
abandoned on our servers. Perhaps 1 + 2 could be combined.

3) Command line overwrite via sympa.pl

It would be nice to have a switch that overwrote the subscribers instead 
of merging them (which would be the default). I'll try and look into 
this as well. Perhaps the sympa.pl script will lend me some insight :)

Just some thoughts to throw out into the Ether.

- John Douglass, Georgia Institute of Technology