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[Lennon Day-Reynolds <address@concealed>]

On Dec 2, 2005, at 7:14 AM, Steven Peterson wrote:

> Thanks very much for your response.  We use Axis for other uses and  
> so a web services alternative is very appealing.  I looked at the  
> WSDL and saw a number of operations with intriguing names, such as  
> info, review, subscribe, and lists, but I was unable to find  
> documentation.  The operations and data types look as if they are  
> meant to support a web application for a single user, but not  
> support an application that is serving the role of List Owner, that  
> is, determining who is allowed to join a list.  For example, are  
> the the following types of operations available?
>
> o  Create a new list
> o  Register for a callback to approve any new people requesting to  
> join a list
> o  Remove a number of people from a list
> o  Find out who is on a list
>
> - Steve

Steve,

Right now, the Sympa SOAP interface is quite limited: it allows end  
users to see available lists, and perform basic subscribe/unsubscribe  
actions. We're using a slightly-extended version of the current API  
here at Reed right now -- basically just the current API with a more  
detailed ListType structure -- but I'm in the process of looking at  
our likely future requirements to add more list administration support.

Since the maintainers have already expressed a willingness to accept  
patches implementing new functionality in the SOAP API, my plan is to  
implement these features as we need them over the next few months,  
and push the changes up-stream once they've seen some testing in our  
environment. Most of your requirements are things we'd like to  
support, as well, so I'd be happy to keep you in the loop on our work.

Lennon Day-Reynolds
System Support Specialist
Reed College