Ed Pastore writes: > I'm posting here to see if anyone has any better insights than I have > had so far and/or any comments on my existing document linked > above.
It looks like the webforum world is pretty thoroughly PHP-based, about which I know nothing, so I have no technical comments. > Apart from the technical difficulties, the additional problem I see is > with message overload. So I'm thinking of setting a second list. The > existing one would be a full bidirectional mirror of the forum, and a > new one would just be an announce list of any new topics posted to > either (ie, anything that is a new topic on the forum or a new thread > on the list). Consider an RSS feed for this, too. > Or can I do that with umbrella lists somehow? No, I don't think that really does what you want. I don't see an obvious way to do this other than to just have two lists, with the new topic list reply-to munged to the main list. I suppose they should be sibling lists, though. > I further want the forum to support OpenID. I imagine that adds > additional layers of complexity when combined with list integration. Not if OpenID is just one way to authenticate. The spamfiltering on the list will handle troublemakers there, and the forum just trusts the list and vice versa. If you require that list members and forum participants all use OpenID, then it would get complicated. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
