On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:13 AM, L. Rahyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As for registration, every forum ive ever visited asked for registration, > > sorry but I don't understand what your asking for? > > > > Tom > > Well, there is some forums which provides "quick reply" form at the > bottom of > the thread (on any of its pages). If you are logged in, you can type text > there and then submit it as usually. If you are not logged in, you will be > able to enter your nickname, protection code and text with your reply. > Protection code is intended as protection from "spam bots". Usually, > protection code provided as somewhat noisy image with few digits and user > should recognize them and enter correctly in the "protection code" field. > Sometimes additional optional fields with password is provided so user can > login and send an answer simultaneously. If he/she leave password field blank > then reply is posted anyway with provided nickname but with "guest" settings > (such as default avatar for all guests or not avatar at all, etc.) and guest > privileges. Sometimes nickname collisions are allowed, sometimes not. > Typically it is good idea to make "guest" settings in the way that clearly > marks all guest posts as such. > However, depending on the code base of a forum, it may be simple to > integrate > such a feature, or hard. > > But registration is one-time problem, especially for people who just > want to > ask one question or answer to some topic (that was found using Google for > example) and don't plan to use the forum frequently. And many people can > consider this as "minor" issue. > More important problem is lack of ability to subscribe for all > messages from > the forum as as well as inability to answer via standard mail client. These > problems are most important. wine-forum.org doesn't provide such > functionality. It would be great if this is fixed. > *At least* there should be possibility to subscribe to all messages > from the > forum and possibility to answer by clicking on the link (to the reply form on > the forum) in each e-mail message from the forum (direct processing of the > e-mail answers is even better but can be harder to implement). It is also > important that after you logged in you don't need to login every time again > and there is no short timeout (use of cookies is necessary for this to work). > But I have no idea how hard/easy will be to implement these features on > wine-forum.org because I know very little about vBulletin used by wine-forum. > > I think that recently created http://forum.winehq.org/ seems to be > the best > solution. Registration there isn't a problem because anyone can write a > message directly to the mailing list without registration on the forum. This > is exactly what I imagine as a perfect solution suitable for all users: > everyone can post answers without logging in (via the mailing list), > everybody can use forum or mailing list (depending on personal choice), and > it is possible to receive and answer using any e-mail client you like. So I > think winehq.org now have very good forum with nice sync with wine-users > mailing list! I really like it. In fact it solves all major problems that I > mentioned in my previous messages! >
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=52 I sincerely wish you guys the best fighting off the spam assault :D Cheers, Tom P.S. Hows that song go?....... You ain't seen nothing yet!