At 06:23 PM 10/25/2011, Jason White wrote:
I'm sure the Luv mailing list administrators would gladly accept help from anyone who knows mailman and who can be trusted to do reliable work.
I'm not in the former category, however, having never administered a list.
Join the club, I tried getting started with Mailman onc and hit a major roadblock. Think it was because I was using a distro provided version, so the documentation I had wasn't quite on the same page. Maybe I should have just grabbed the source and started from scratch. :D
I agree that removing those [luv-main] etc., annotations from the subject line would be a move in the right direction. They're annoying.
They don't bother me as much, but things are tidier without them. For me, it's a case of I have more important things to worry about, but if the admins ditched them, I would be far from disappointed.
I dislike Web fora so much that I won't use them unless there is a truly compelling reason to do so. The problem is that a Web forum forces you to use its user interface rather than one chosen by you
Join the club, I find their user interfaces to be slow and clumsy. Unfortunately, very few forum packages offer mailing list and/or NNTP integration. FUDForum is probably the best example of one that does, and I've played with that with some success. Used it with a Yahoo group with a lot of success (until Yahoo's stupid bounce management killed the link). That's where I was starting to play with mailman. :) Some forum package communities are actively hostile towards mailing lists for what I consider to be spurious reasons. For example, the SMF (Simple Machines Forum) community refust to add mailing list integration on the grounds it will increase spam into forums. WTF??? That should be a decision for the forum administrator to make, not the developers. :/ Unfortunately, a couple of forums I use a lot run SMF. :/
I'll gladly take mail, NNTP news, XMPP, IRC, StatusNet or anything else that has a protocol behind it and a good range of client software.
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