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[Lennon Day-Reynolds <address@concealed>]

I've been working on an application for use on our campus to allow  
users to easily subscribe and unsubscribe from a set of public lists,  
calling the Sympa SOAP interface from a Ruby on Rails web UI.

In doing so, I've come up against a number of limitations of the  
current SOAP API, including the extremely limited information about  
each list made available to SOAP clients. Looking forward, I think  
our application would benefit greatly from an extended API with  
several new methods and an enriched 'ListType' that included a number  
of currently-missing fields -- list owners, description, and  
subscription policy, to name a few.

Before I begin any major development on this, though, I wanted to  
gauge the level of interest others (including the Sympa maintainers)  
would have in such an extension. I realize that the SOAP API has been  
somewhat of a second-class interface to date, and I don't want to  
spend a lot of time and effort trying to enrich it if there simply  
isn't going to be demand for it outside our institution.

Alternately, if other people have worked more extensively on driving  
Sympa installations via external user interfaces, I'd be interested  
to hear what worked for you.

Thanks in advance,

Lennon Day-Reynolds
System Support Specialist
Reed College