From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Postgres forums ... take 2 |
Date: | 2010-11-15 10:42:23 |
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:08, Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)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 "mailinglist(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)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-net(at)forums(dot)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/
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