[Wine] Ability to ban ML people

[Paul Johnson]

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On Monday 24 March 2008 06:49:11 pm Jeremy White wrote:
> > On Monday 24 March 2008 16:21:06 pm Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> On Monday 24 March 2008 03:48:31 pm vitamin wrote:
> >> Some people on mailing list (most notably Paul Johnson)don't get that
> >> forum works different. Please block their replies or remove them
> >> completely from the ML and forum.
> >
> > Perhaps it's best to fix the problem instead of suggesting the users are
> > wrong.  A lot of the complaints with the forum to list gateway would go
> > away if the forums required quoting, and the gateway itself provided an
> > accurate References header.
> >
> > It's not impossible to get this right:  Non-usenet Google Groups are
> > great exmaples of forums working with mailing lists harmoniously.  Why
> > the prevailing opinion here is to ban or run off anybody who suggests
> > that fixing a pervasive bug is the right thing to do only serves to harm
> > the project.
>
> We use mail2forum (www.mail2forum.com) and phpbb2, and patches
> and/or advice are welcome.
>
> The mail2forum guys are openly asking for additional developers, and I
> think we've deployed from source, so patches or configuration advice would
> be helpful.
>
> For phpbb, I know that Jeremy would be more reluctant to take patches, as
> he's using Debian packages, but perhaps he's overlooked a setting;
> again, advice is appreciated.

Looking through some of my old notebooks from a job I had a few years ago 
whilst unpacking last night from a recent move, I seem to have notes 
suggesting I solved this problem once already before I started my own 
company.

- From my notes, we decided the easiest, most straightforward way to solve it 
was to use sympa.  It's highly configurable, and has both a forum and a 
mailing list interface, and sets forum replies up in a email-friendly 
fashion, and neatly sidesteps the security problems that seem to plague many 
of the php-based forum packages at the time.  I set aside an afternoon to get 
it set up and working, and got it done in about an hour altogether from the 
Debian package.

- -- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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