On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:18:02 +0100, Anselm Strauss  
<astrauss at students.unibe.ch> wrote:
> I'm planning to implement a mailinglist system in Squeak. I'm doing this
> as a project within the scope of my study in computer science at the
> University of Bern.

Hey, nice!

I do not know of similar things, but I do know how I'd tackle it. Start  
with qmail+ezmlm. I'm not saying this because this is necessarily the best  
mailing list system there is, but it is very modular - you will be able to  
subsume functions in Squeak piecewise, while keeping a full system  
running; this should provide for simpler testing. Also, ezmlm has some  
good ideas about how to manage mailing lists and, as most of Bernstein's  
products, is quite solidly engineered. Look on his homepage for more info  
- http://cr.yp.to/ (you may guess exactly 1 time what his research is  
about).

(and of course I'm also saying this because it might be en interesting  
piece of software for the SqF box which is running ezmlm ;))

It shouldn't be too hard - Squeak has mail reception, parsing,  
construction and sending on board; if you don't want to be fancy you can  
use the Maildir system for reliable storage; and ezmlm should provide  
quite a number of pointers about how to tackle things.