Why would you need RB at all? The entire process can be handled via
PHP. I say this because I have done it. Worked really well, as each
subscriber had a delivery method: individual, digest, or web-only.
The web interface could only be accessed by subscribers, supported
threading decently well. This is the biggest problem, however.
Supporting threading from e-mail is very difficult because of human
error. We've all got into the conversation of "please don't reply to
start new messages" - and we also have messages that belong in a
thread that are not.
There also comes and issue of categorizing. In our case, a web forum
would likely want to have categories. But when receiving an e-mail,
how would we know where to put the message? Wouldn't work, so our web
forum wouldn't have categories. It worked much like e-mail.
--
Thom McGrath, <http://www.thezaz.com/>
"You realize you've created God in your own image when God hates all
the same people you do."
On Feb 22, 2006, at 7:03 AM, R Charles Flickinger wrote:
Hello
Why would you use PHP for the web interface, when you have RB?
To drive the web page "version". It could probably be done with
Perl as easily. I suppose the web page version would be available
to those who don't use RB, as RB users may be motivated to use the
RB application more so than a web version.
Anyway, it's all quite doable, but idle talk unless somebody has the
skill, the ambition, and the time to actually do it. Most of us
(including myself) have at most two of these.
I admit my time is tighter these days than a year ago. I created
something similar for SuperCard, but it did not take off because
their management felt it would take traffic away from their mail
list. Because it was an interactive FAQ, rather than a forum/mail
list hybrid, it never got off the ground.
A fourth requirement, the developer must be a Pro user. I'm a
Standard user, so I would not be able to build a final product for
such a purpose. Ability to post and query an online database is
not supported for Standard RB users. :(
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