On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:52:25 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote: >On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:49:44PM +1100, John Fitzsimons wrote:
Hi Adam, >> Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman >> mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and >> vica versa ? < snip > >The Wordpress thingy turns email -> database record(s), from which it >ought to be moderately easy to map those fields to appropriate ones >for the forum. < snip > Well, there are a few "issues" here. I am totally unfamiliar with how Wordpress works, I wouldn't know how/where to map anything, I don't have root access to the hosting site that has my Mailman install. Those three items make things a bit difficult. :-( >I can't really think of a way to maintain an up-to date email thread >in a forum, allowing posting to both; although, an afterthought may be Well, it has been done a number of times. With a number of forums. The trouble is that upgrading forums generally stops things working and/or one needs root access to install. Something not everyone has. Here is an example IF one wants to pay the huge cost of their software.. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151222 >to use NNTP for both... but that's quite perverse. I would prefer to/from NNTP. Think I might start a new thread for that. >(Do forum softwares still support NNTP feeds, or does one need to use >"RSS" or "XML" or one of those other new-fangled things to import >content?) >Others may have better 'solutions'. Thanks for your comments. Regards, John. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
