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Re: Maybe better mailing list archive software
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Maybe better mailing list archive software
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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)...
> 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?
Igor
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