On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:56:32 -0500 Greg <g...@kinostudios.com> wrote:
> It would be interesting, actually, to see whether the list's software > could be automatically integrated with a forum like SMF. Nobody needs to modify the list's software. You can just have your forum's web server receive the mailing list's messages and display them as forum posts. That is part of the beauty of mailing lists: nobody dictates what sort of software will receive or display the messages. > I don't know how edits would be handled though. They wouldn't. Why do you consider edits to be such an important feature? Usually a followup message to the effect of, "Oops, typo" is sufficient, and usually only needed for errors that might alter the meaning of a sentence. Here is a more important question to consider: how might you enable "editing" of posts *without* requiring a central authority that stores and displays messages? While there is some level of centralization on the list (moderation, the list server itself), the messages themselves are not stored in a single place. I can read messages offline, and even reply to messages offline (my mail client will queue the messages until I have a connection). Numerous archives exist, so that even if one archive fails the messages can still be found. Losing that for the sake of editing posts seems like a bad deal to me. -- Ben -- Benjamin R Kreuter KK4FJZ -- "If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." - George Orwell
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