At 9:36 PM -0600 2/14/2000, Mike Nolan wrote:
>And some of the folks who have written me for the right
>URL were long-time subscribers and contributors. We miss their insight.
yah. All the more reason to stop thinking in terms of distribution
technologies and start thinking about distributing information (we
traditionally use mail lists or usenet because they exist and have
existed. But the key isn't HOW a user access information, but
allowing the user to access it. Right?)
>I gotta learn more about cookies. This idea sounds better all the time.
You know, the more I think about this, the more I think the easy way
is if you have a MLM taht supports the "nomail" option. So a person
can subscribe and turn off e-mails, and then read via the web. That'd
give them posting capability, the admin posting restrictions, and if
you use mailback validations, everyone goes through the same basic
authentifications. And you only have to maintain one subscriber lists.
And it only affects users who want to post. Lurkers can lurk via the
web as guests, although I'd still prefer my lurkers not have access
to email addresses.
You could generate cookies, but doesn't the nomail option solve this as easily?
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