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Re: Maybe better mailing list archive software
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:27:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: Maybe better mailing list archive software
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:23:08PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Wed, 28 May 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I'm testing some software on sourceware now which provides archives for
>>the mailing lists automatically without any extra effort, allowing me
>>to scrap all sorts of infrastructure on sourceware just by updating to
>>the latest version of ezmlm. One of the things that I'm looking at
>>also provides RSS feeds.
>>
>>This is an example for the test-list.
>>
>>http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-www.pl?1
>>
>>It appears that I might be able to turn on the ability to send email to
>>the list from the web, allowing people to use the archives as some sort
>>of discussion forum.
>>
>>I'm soliciting opinions. Would this be a good thing or a bad thing?
>>Allowing this would mean that we wouldn't see broken threading all of
>>the time but there are both spam and cluelessness aspects to allowing
>>this that trouble me a little.
>
>It's a bit hard to see without actual threaded messages (since nobody
>replies to the test list)...
Yeah, good point. Maybe I'll make a copy of the cygwin list for testing.
>> I assume that I can add more words to the above links but I was
>> wondering what people thought about the potential new format. So, of
>> course, I go where the hippos roam to solicit opinions.
>
>Would you be able to temporarily turn on the ability to reply via the web
>to the test-list?
I'll see. I have to install some new perl packages so I was avoiding that
but it should be no big deal.
cgf