Hi,

On Friday, February 17, 2006 at 15:58:12, houghi wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:26:44PM +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> > Which makes little sense at all. You put your email address into the
> > webinterface to get a confirmation request over mail. Why anyone would
> > use a webinterface to deal with mailinglists anyway is beyond me.
> 
> It does not have to make sence to you, it has to make sence to the people
> using it. ;-)

Im default list-owner/part of ml-admin for some years now. Ive got maybe
5 requests for a webinterface to manage subscriptions. So my users dont
want a webinterface. Quite the converse, i think it helped building the
high quality lists that we have today that there isnt a webinterface. 

And maybe i does not have to make sense to me but i have to administrate
it.

> > > Especialy that last one can be very handy on busy mailinglists. Yes,
> > > this can be done with sending mails. A webinterface however is more
> > > user-friendly.
> > 
> > A webinterface like this can be implemented by simple input boxes. Like
> > we did here
> > 
> > http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/
> 
> That is only for the subscribe part. I realy like the fact that you get a
> 'personal space' where you can change settinings.

This can be done also with some simple php/perl scripts. You wont (and
dont want to) get around the confirmation mail. 
  
> Especially the temporay stop is something I would find handy.

Call it what you want but that is just a unsubscribe when you dont want
mails and a subscribe when you want them again. You gain nothing with
it:

temporay stop == {start temporay stop,stop temporay stop}
reality       == {unsubscribe,subscribe}

Henne

-- 
Henne Vogelsang, Core Services
"Rules change. The Game remains the same."
                         - Omar (The Wire)

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