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n0dalus wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 4/22/06, Paul <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:subsolar@subsolar.com"><subsolar@subsolar.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I don't like web interfaces!
No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a
dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the
information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information.
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We could always make a web interface to the mailing list.
Some ideas:
- Threads get shown in usual bulletin board style
- Moderators can move threads from the main area to other sections.
Threads can be created by users directly in user-writable sections
- When users signup for an account it could be linked with a
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:username@wineusers.com">username@wineusers.com</a> or similar address
- When users post to a thread or create a thread, an email is sent
from their wine-managed email account to the list, and the post shows
up in the board
- When someone replies privately to a user without CC'ing the list,
the message is sent to their private inbox
- Users on the forum can send messages to other users in a similar fashion
- Reply notifications can be configured by the user to be sent to
their personal address
- Posts are all plain text, with optional attachments (some reasonable
limits apply)
Since a huge number of the features usually provided by forums are not
needed, this is probably an easier task than it might seem.
n0dalus.
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Sounds good, but people are going to complain cause they do all their
work in text mode, and lynx is a shotty browser.<br>
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Well, we can tell them to use elinks (a tabbed text-mode browser with a
emacs-style featureset of sorts) or to bit^H^H^Hcomplain to /dev/null.<br>
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