-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 March 2008 06:49:11 pm Jeremy White wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008 16:21:06 pm Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Monday 24 March 2008 03:48:31 pm vitamin wrote: > >> Some people on mailing list (most notably Paul Johnson)don't get that > >> forum works different. Please block their replies or remove them > >> completely from the ML and forum. > > > > Perhaps it's best to fix the problem instead of suggesting the users are > > wrong. A lot of the complaints with the forum to list gateway would go > > away if the forums required quoting, and the gateway itself provided an > > accurate References header. > > > > It's not impossible to get this right: Non-usenet Google Groups are > > great exmaples of forums working with mailing lists harmoniously. Why > > the prevailing opinion here is to ban or run off anybody who suggests > > that fixing a pervasive bug is the right thing to do only serves to harm > > the project. > > We use mail2forum (www.mail2forum.com) and phpbb2, and patches > and/or advice are welcome. > > The mail2forum guys are openly asking for additional developers, and I > think we've deployed from source, so patches or configuration advice would > be helpful. > > For phpbb, I know that Jeremy would be more reluctant to take patches, as > he's using Debian packages, but perhaps he's overlooked a setting; > again, advice is appreciated. Looking through some of my old notebooks from a job I had a few years ago whilst unpacking last night from a recent move, I seem to have notes suggesting I solved this problem once already before I started my own company. - From my notes, we decided the easiest, most straightforward way to solve it was to use sympa. It's highly configurable, and has both a forum and a mailing list interface, and sets forum replies up in a email-friendly fashion, and neatly sidesteps the security problems that seem to plague many of the php-based forum packages at the time. I set aside an afternoon to get it set up and working, and got it done in about an hour altogether from the Debian package. - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6YxIUCxPKZafKh0RAnEbAJ4hTCbL/j91KkPY14UOIbYwIyM0+ACgmPev pgvk6/ao6V4IkeM3TOnOk9w= =eKwZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
