15 Jan
2003
15 Jan
'03
3:34 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
Thats
fair.
However - how many people would really fall into this category of being
completely unable to use an eMail client, of some form, and only a web
browser?
Statistically one would imagine a remarkably slim proportion... Why
inconvenience the many for the few?
Hmz. I am not everyone, but being that anonymous sounds really
stupid. Each to his own.
Thats really kinda... nasty.
Yippee. Lets forward 150k of image to a couple thousands users ;) I'm glad
I don't pay for your bandwidth!
Why? Why
can't you have your marketplace CGIs use the Mailman
equivalent of a passwd file?
I'm just trying to be difficult. I much prefer this format.
Things to think about perhaps.
JP
And right now
members can use any eMail client, even elm or
mutt... They're just as common, right?
software at the remote location
(IMAP-capable email client, SSH client). In
some cases (e.g. student lab, internet cafe on vacation), you can't count on
that. In nearly every case, you *can* count on some form of web browser. It surely
can't be hard to have the mailing list archival software munge
eMail addresses...
can look at the headers of this message and get my email
address. I don't
think it's a big deal, but someone else might. I think more people would
join if they knew their email address would not be disclosed.
I know this aspect is fairly debatable. It wasn't the reason I cooked up the
web app idea. It was merely a "hrm, we could throw this in too" thought.
You can't
attach eMails to the list can you?
Yes. If a message is accepted for deliver, it is
delivered with only the
standard Mailman header modifications. No other filtering takes place. Of
course, we could do this now by piping messages through a filter before they
hit the Mailman posting script. Easy. What kind of
extra features?
also have talked about doing some sort of a marketplace thing, too.
Right
now, that would require a separate (from Mailman) username/password pair. I
would also like to create a data archive and give some people write access