Mike,
I think this is a nifty idea once it is fleshed out a bit. On Feb 10, 2005, at 3:46 AM, Mike Doub wrote:
There was a very recent thread on how to make an email server directly from a Revolution app.Hello List,
I am thinking about writing a custom listserver type application but I don't
know that much about how to get my system to be a mail host. I am looking
for advice about any tools or scripts that could get me started.
The toughest part of this is coming up with the new metaphor for choosing how to be selective. It seems to me that a keyword specification is problematic because both the subscriber and subscribee would be making somewhat arbitrary choices on the words that were not included at all (thereby missing the thread) or were included incidentally (thereby increasing the noise).
I am interested in experimenting with the idea of a list server that you
subscribe to topics rather than to the whole list. My idea is that everyone
would have an "announcement" channel that could be configurable by keywords
and searchable via the web. The user then "subscribes" to topics of
interest.
This crazy idea came from trying to work the communication problem of
wanting to be part of discussion about specific software bugs. Think of
subscribing to the discussion tied to a specific bugzilla bug. Most folks
have a few favorite bugs that they would like to monitor, but not really all
of them.
I would appreciate people's thoughts on both the inbound and outbound side
of email, with Rev as the code managing the behavior of the list server.
However, I think what might be really interesting would be not only the listserver type application but an information server application. I'm thinking of something like a bulletin board (either server based or client based [think RevNet]) where there would be channels of discussions. It seems like the most difficult opportunity is how to organize the channels. This could be a new type of application.
Bill Vlahos
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