Re: Re-proposal: web forums

[Segin]

n0dalus wrote: On 4/22/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't like web interfaces! No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. We could always make a web interface to the mailing list. Some ideas: - Threads get shown in usual bulletin board style - Moderators can move threads from the main area to other sections. Threads can be created by users directly in user-writable sections - When users signup for an account it could be linked with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar address - When users post to a thread or create a thread, an email is sent from their wine-managed email account to the list, and the post shows up in the board - When someone replies privately to a user without CC'ing the list, the message is sent to their private inbox - Users on the forum can send messages to other users in a similar fashion - Reply notifications can be configured by the user to be sent to their personal address - Posts are all plain text, with optional attachments (some reasonable limits apply) Since a huge number of the features usually provided by forums are not needed, this is probably an easier task than it might seem. n0dalus. Sounds good, but people are going to complain cause they do all their work in text mode, and lynx is a shotty browser. Well, we can tell them to use elinks (a tabbed text-mode browser with a emacs-style featureset of sorts) or to bit^H^H^Hcomplain to /dev/null.