Archive imports

Yeah, yeah, I'm packing, but I'm thinking about how to automate
archive imports.

I think it might make sense to do this via a web page using that
"upload" functionality that all the web browsers support.

So the web page would ask for:

1) The group name
2) The email address of the list admin/owner
3) The email address of the submitter
4) A click-box that says "Yes, I have asked the list admin about the
   import, and it's A-OK"

So you'd submit that, which would upload the archive, and an email
would be sent to the submitter.  If that email is responded to (which
means that we have authenticated the submitter), an email is then
sent to the admin and the submitter saying that the archive is now
being imported.

And then the archive would be imported.

Of course, we'd have to trust the submitter that the admin has been
told of this, but we have to do that anyway.  It'd just be a matter
of automating the process...

Anyway, I think something like that would be nice if lots of imports
are to be done.  If not, it's less work to do it "manually".  

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