On Wed, Nov 19, 2008, Ken Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Nicholas Accad wrote: >> You are replacing a simple system which I can check from anywhere >> (unix shell, outlook, any webmail client basically), with a system >> that requires me to use a modern browser to just see the posts. > > Not so. > > You can read via email or RSS. The full body of comments is in the > notification. The only difference is that you need to click through on > the link in the message to reply. Posting is done on the forum, but > lurkers can lurk anywhere they like.
I joined the forums to see how it works before I commented and I can say now that the email feature is useless. 1) The From header is always the same and has no relation to who actually posted the message. 2) The Subject header is always the same has no relation to what the thread topic is. 3) No In-Reply-To or References header to allow mail client to thread posts. 4) All emails are sent with text/html with no option for a text only version of the post. This is a *huge* regression. You talk about how you don't want something "tacked" onto the OpenSRS website, yet this email feature is *much* worse than the previous solution. Here's an example: From: OpenSRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OpenSRS Forums Notification [-- Autoview using links -force-html -dump ''/tmp/muttf9AWxW'' --] Hello Johannes, The following comment was posted in the discussion Sneak Peek at OpenSRS Storefront. Post by: Ken Schafer [...] JE _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
