| From: | "Amir Rohan" <amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jeff Janes" <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL www" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: No easy way to join discussion in existing thread when not subscribed |
| Date: | 2015-09-27 22:29:59 |
| Message-ID: | trinity-b0cbd5c1-7d33-4787-982d-33f8c6535f57-1443392999201@3capp-mailcom-lxa08 |
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<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/27/2015 09:34 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:</div>
<div><span style="white-space: pre;">> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera<br/>
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com <mailto:alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:<br/>
><br/>
> Tom Lane wrote:<br/>
> > Amir Rohan <amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com <mailto:amir(dot)rohan(at)mail(dot)com>> writes:<br/>
> > > I've read elsewhere that a possible solution is to provide a<br/>
> > > mail address associated with a message (displayed on the web interface)<br/>
> > > that routes your mail message to the thread.<br/>
> ><br/>
> > Seems awfully like a here-please-spam-us button.<br/>
> </span><br/>
<br/>
a captcha would be the usual way to solve that problem.<br/>
<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Yeah, that doesn't sound good. What I think would be workable is to<br/>
> create a feature that emails you an archived message, and requires that<br/>
> you're logged in with your community account. That sounds hard enough<br/>
> to abuse by spammers and convenient enough for actual users.<br/>
><br/>
> I think majordomo already has a command to do that. It was discussed<br/>
> somewhere on one<br/>
> of these lists in the last few months, but I can't seem to find the<br/>
> discussion now.<br/>
> </span><br/>
<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> I thought someone was going to create a link on the maillist archive<br/>
> page that would provide some visibility to this buried gem.</span><br/>
<br/>
Isn't there a ticket on the bug tracker? ;)<br/>
<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Maybe this vague recollection can jog someone's memory.<br/>
> </span><br/>
<br/>
Not my memory, but my urge to read documentation:<br/>
<br/>
|To: majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org<br/>
<span style="white-space: pre;">|<br/>
| approve mypassword archive-get pgsql-www 20150927</span><br/>
<br/>
Will get you the email(s), but:</div>
<div><br/>
1) You need to subscribe first (and unsubsribe again later). Defeating the purpose.<br/>
2) Find out how to do this was not trivial and took (relativly) a lot of time. Hiding instructions on this somewhere on the website wouldn't<br/>
be much better in practice.<br/>
3) The selection granularity is crap. Asking for a day from -hackers<br/>
got me 120 messages to sift through. Majordomo offers alternative<br/>
filters, but none is much better.<br/>
<br/>
So as a user-facing solution, it sucks, but if it helps to implement<br/>
a click handler on the website that gets me a particular message,</div>
<div>that'll work.<br/>
<br/>
Amir</div></div></body></html>
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