On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:08, Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15/11/2010, at 8:37 PM, Thom Brown wrote: >> I know this is a sensitive issue with some people, i've made sure no >> information is posted thats not already currently being indexed by google. >> >> The only maintenance I can see is that all new topics are pushed into the >> General > Other category as the script can't differentiate what category it >> should in fact belong to, once the topic is moved it will stay there. This >> shouldn't be a real problem as theres not many new topics being created on >> any given day. > > Elliot, > > That's actually some good work you've done there! I didn't know phpBB > supported bidirectional mailing list support. > > It doesn't. I have a subscription address that is piped into a PHP script > that uses the phpBB3 APIs to do all you see.
That sounds scary :-) Particularly given attachments and such. but if it works.... > A few points though. I think we'd need to disable smileys, bbcode, any form > of rich text formatting, flash or embedded images. In short, plain text > only, which is the policy on the mailing list. I think it would be more > useful if each forum directly corresponded to a mailing list too. What I > mean is that if there was a forum on the site which didn't match to a > mailing list, only forum users could use it. > > If someone were to send a reply on the forum all the bbcode would be > stripped before emailing it to the mailing list to keep the mailing list > "pure." Is that what you mean? Personally, my thoughts are that if we want lists mirrored to a forum, they should look the same in both cases. Which means they should be stripped in the forums *as well*. but since I wouldn't be using the forums, my view should perhaps not be paid attention to around that. But there should *definitely* not be any bbcode going to the mailinglists. > Also, if someone registers on the forum, do they get a major domo > registration email? And if so, would this be set to receive no emails upon > registration? I'm not clear as to how this step would work because, at the > moment, mailing list subscribers have to subscribe on a list-by-list basis. > So registration to the forum site wouldn't necessarily mean they'd want to > join any particular mailing list. Similarly, could they unregister easily? > And anyone who attempts to post to a mailing list they aren't subscribed to > requires moderation, so we don't wish to exacerbate this. > > No they are not registered on the mailing list, but they actually don't need > to be, let me explain: > 1. John Smith has a postgres related question and finds the forums, he signs > up and posts his question. > 2. His post is then emailed to the mailing list under a generic registered > address like "mailingl...@postgresql.com.au" This part I really don't like. It should at least be posted with some kind of uniquely identifiable pass-through address, if not the users own address (make that an option?). Like magnus-hagander-...@forums.whatever > 3. Bob House reads Johns question on the mailing list and simply sends an > email reply. > 4. The email reply is piped into the forum and matches the topic based on > the email subject (thats how it currently does it.) You really should be matching on the response headers rather than subject... Or at least both. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
