Hunter-
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)
The complexity of mailman/PHPBB interaction seems too high, and so would
be the replication of the entire mailman functionality in PHPBB. Keep in
mind that comments should only be plaintext, quotes need to be done email
style (">foo"), linebreaks should be inserted automatically, message
references need to be retained, messages sent to the mailing list need to
appear in the PHPBB etc.
I suggest taking a look at ways to improve the mailman web interface to
allow members to post through it. I have not seen posting functionality at
the Scipy example site you linked to, but it did have search functionality
-- perhaps you could send the patches for that to wikitech-l and ask for
the functionality to be added to our installed mailman package.
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.
Please be specific in what kind of access you want. A shell account on the
Wikipedia server? Why? If you patch mailman to support the above, it would
be perfectly reasonable to do so by sending a patch. I don't have a shell
account either and have never needed one.
Regards,
Erik