Robert J. Bradbury writes:
> I've been reviewing the possible approaches to upgrading our
> communication and interaction options.
I think this is an excellent idea indeed.
> I believe that this is a non-trivial amount of work and would
> like to establish a group of individuals who have expertise
> in these areas that we might sub-allocate the development
> of areas in which they have the greatest interest. I believe
> some of the skills which might be required are (a) SQL/Perl
> knowledge, (b) Mail Server/MajorDomo knowledge, (c)
> Indexed databases (e.g. SWISH knowledge), (d) News
> servers.
Why I wouldn't dream of bashing Perl here, I would like to point out the utility of Python http://www.python.org , Mailman http://www.list.org , PyApachehttp://www.msg.com.mx/pyapache/ , Zope http://www.zope.org/ , Gadfly http://www.chordate.com/gadfly.html and, of course, diverse m(y)SQL modules in that particular project.