The Cunctator wrote:
- No need to subscribe/log in a second time.
In order to contribute, I guess you mean? So, one thing that might satisfy this would be a simple program to allow signed-in users to fill in a form and have the result sent to the mailing list.
- Ability to use wiki markup in posts.
Most particularly, you want to be able to click on [[Thomas Jefferson]], right, and have it do the sensible thing. Parsing code for that should be easy enough.
- Better archives.
Better in what ways?
My thinking *at the moment* is that a significant portion of the functionality you want could be quickly added by an energetic perl or python programmer to the mailing list software. All that's needed is (1) a form for logged-in-users to be able to post to the list, and that's a very simple perl script and (2) a perl script or python code or php to process the logs into a more wiki-clickable format.
Adding such things seems pretty simple, because if done thoughtfully, it wouldn't interfere with anything else on the site, and it would add the things you want without forcing email partisans to change our ways, either.
(I mean, especially for [[Thomas Jefferson]], we do that already.)
--Jimbo