[Mageia-discuss] Mailing List to Web Forum Bidirectional Gateway

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 3 23:27:39 CEST 2010


2010/10/3 Renaud MICHEL <r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com>:
>
> OK, but as this would be targeted (also) to people that are not familiar
> with MLs, it should be made very clear that the message will be cross-posted
> with their email.

Yes, that's only a question of placement in the forum.

Let's take the international Mandriva forum as example. You have
several categories like Announcements, Community Chat, etc. You create
a new category "Mailing List Gateway" where you have the various ML
parts like in the test forum of tux99. Only those messages a user
posts in there will be sent to the MLs, it's easy to put a describing
sticky on top which explains what's it all about.

I do not see the problems Olivier mentioned. For one there can not be
top posting in the forum display. Same with HTML - there is no choice
in the forum if you disable usage of BBCode in those ML sections. The
messages will be sent in plain text to the ML.

-- 
wobo


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