Extending the Project

As usual with these projects, there are many ways you could extend the functionality. You might like to

• Confirm membership with subscribers so that people can't be subscribed without their permission. This is typically done by sending email to their accounts and deleting those who do not reply. This approach will also clean out any incorrect email addresses from the database.

• Give the administrator powers to approve or reject users who want to subscribe to their lists.

• Add open list functionality that allows any member to send email to the list.

• Let only registered members see the archive for a particular mailing list.

• Allow users to search for lists that match specific criteria. For example, users might be interested in golf newsletters. Once the number of newsletters grows past a particular size, a search would be useful to find specific ones.