Re: Maybe better mailing list archive software

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:23:08PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Wed, 28 May 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I'm testing some software on sourceware now which provides archives for
>>the mailing lists automatically without any extra effort, allowing me
>>to scrap all sorts of infrastructure on sourceware just by updating to
>>the latest version of ezmlm.  One of the things that I'm looking at
>>also provides RSS feeds.
>>
>>This is an example for the test-list.
>>
>>http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-www.pl?1
>>
>>It appears that I might be able to turn on the ability to send email to
>>the list from the web, allowing people to use the archives as some sort
>>of discussion forum.
>>
>>I'm soliciting opinions.  Would this be a good thing or a bad thing?
>>Allowing this would mean that we wouldn't see broken threading all of
>>the time but there are both spam and cluelessness aspects to allowing
>>this that trouble me a little.
>
>It's a bit hard to see without actual threaded messages (since nobody
>replies to the test list)...

Yeah, good point.  Maybe I'll make a copy of the cygwin list for testing.

>> I assume that I can add more words to the above links but I was
>> wondering what people thought about the potential new format.  So, of
>> course, I go where the hippos roam to solicit opinions.
>
>Would you be able to temporarily turn on the ability to reply via the web
>to the test-list?

I'll see.  I have to install some new perl packages so I was avoiding that
but it should be no big deal.

cgf