On 19-Oct-2009, at 19:43, Brendan Quinn wrote:
I agree mostly, but wouldn't knock down the idea of a google/yahoo
group
so quickly -- if you monitor new subscribers (as I think we do
anyway on
this list??) we should be okay re spam, shouldn't we? And as for
passwords, you need a password to do anything on Mailman as well.
FWIW, it’s only post-subscription, which most people tend not to do
too much—subscribing doesn’t (have to) require a password, it can
generate one for you.
Of course there may be other issues about working with third parties
on
this stuff, but surely we can move beyond those.
Re mailman, it's okay, but remember the archives aren't the prettiest:
<web developer hat>
if you can tweak the HTML ever so slightly, you can add some CSS to
clean that up. The mark-up’s pretty much fine in all honesty.
</web developer hat>
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ and you can't search
(unless you hook up with a service like mail-archive.com)
…or Google site search (bear in mind a “site” doesn’t have to be a
whole domain. Google searches for site:bbc.co.uk/programmes are trés
handy ;)
If you (i.e., “somebody”) were feeling adventurous, you could hook it
up to Xapian. this probably—understandably—exceeds the effort the
relevant people are willing/able to put in, though!
I'm not sure about RSS support in Mailman but would anyone really use
RSS for the backstage list? Most RSS readers would break under the
load
;-)
I’d wonder the same thing.
M.
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