On 20-Jul-07, at 8:39 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I've looked at a few lurker archivers and I wasn't blown away by its > user interface. That's apparently highly configurable though.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about interface, and I'm coming to the conclusion that something more like a web bulletin board is probably the way to go, given that people use them all the time without much trouble and with a fairly minimal amount of whining. ;) I'm trying to use interfaces to things like comment systems (which are often threaded -- picture the slashdot stuff, maybe?) and popular boards like phpbb (which isn't threaded beyond separate topics) as guides to how people usually deal with conversations on the web. It'd actually be fairly easy, at that point, to just put a posting interface into the archives (yes, you'd have to be logged in, and yes, this means your password becomes that bit more valuable because someone having it can pose as you to the list... but they could do that by spoofing your email address so I'm not too concerned). But then people who don't like email or just want to pop by and check the list quickly could actually use mailman like a web board, which is something I'm pretty sure would get used (I know my users have asked for it in the past). I've been drafting simple prototype interfaces in my head, trying to keep potential architectures in mind. I'm hoping I'll have time this week to code some up HTML and see how well they actually work when they're not just inside my head. :) Terri _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
