dump the beta-interest emails (I have registered emails up to as of 14.11)
repurpose the beta-interest signup field / db for mailing list signups
collect and treat a new list manually
Only problem is if user wants to unsubscribe. We can assume that the early subscribing users care enough to input their email and so will not unsubscribe in the near future.
We probably don't want to implement mailing lists ourselves, but probably just install mailman or similar, and have an interface for subscribing to the list on the website.
As a temporary functional solution, we might:
Only problem is if user wants to unsubscribe. We can assume that the early subscribing users care enough to input their email and so will not unsubscribe in the near future.