Great. I'll get to work right away on researching to see if there are options already
out there,
and if not, begin a hacking strategy.
The two paths to take right now are:
--hack in (of find some patches for) to mailman some better functionality for the
webbased view.
(see examples at the zesty or google groups link provided on
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_media)
OR
--hack in full and secure email responding into an already existing bbs like phpbb
(which
already supports email notification per topic AND which I am already comfortable with, as
I've
shown this list a patch that I made for it see
phpbb-hpmods.sf.net)
As I have requested many times now, could I please be granted an admin account so I can
start this
work in a most transparent way. I have already shown that I've been a member of
wikipedia for
3/4's of a year now, and have been on the most active list throughout that time).
AND btw, just for redudancy purposes, here is a link to a response I provided to BRION on
the tech
list to a discussion that popped up there concurrently to this one:
http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-May/003699.html
FINALLY, we have to address tomos i18n concerns as this is how this whole thread got
started.
--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Hunter-
An email-bbs bridge is absolutely the best of
both worlds. You get structure
of a threaded system + emailability for conservatives.
There is already a fairly convenient web interface for *reading* the
mailing list at
gmane.org. However, we need to have some protection
against posting to it from a web interface, so as not to be drowned by
spam. If we want to provide such a gateway, it has to use the same or a
similar authentication procedure as the mailing list -- just being
authenticated by your Wikipedia account would not suffice, because the
Wikipedia account itself is not authenticated.
If you wish to provide, or are familiar with a web interface that allows
*posting* to a mailman-based lists with authentication, then yes, that
would be an option.
Regards,
Erik
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