[Wikipedia-l] Re: I like BBS:es

[Hunter Peress]

Great. I'll get to work right away on researching to see if there are options already out there,
and if not, begin a hacking strategy.

The two paths to take right now are:
  --hack in (of find some patches for) to mailman some better functionality for the webbased view.
(see examples at the zesty or google groups link provided on
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_media)
  
  OR
  --hack in full and secure email responding into an already existing bbs like phpbb (which
already supports email notification per topic AND which I am already comfortable with, as I've
shown this list a patch that I made for it  see phpbb-hpmods.sf.net)

As I have requested many times now, could I please be granted an admin account so I can start this
work in a most transparent way. I have already shown that I've been a member of wikipedia for
3/4's of a year now, and have been on the most active list throughout that time).

AND btw, just for redudancy purposes, here is a link to a response I provided to BRION on the tech
list to a discussion that popped up there concurrently to this one:
http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-May/003699.html

FINALLY, we have to address tomos i18n concerns as this is how this whole thread got started.

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hunter-
> > An email-bbs bridge is absolutely the best of both worlds. You get structure
> > of a threaded system + emailability for conservatives.
> 
> There is already a fairly convenient web interface for *reading* the  
> mailing list at gmane.org. However, we need to have some protection  
> against posting to it from a web interface, so as not to be drowned by  
> spam. If we want to provide such a gateway, it has to use the same or a  
> similar authentication procedure as the mailing list -- just being  
> authenticated by your Wikipedia account would not suffice, because the  
> Wikipedia account itself is not authenticated.
> 
> If you wish to provide, or are familiar with a web interface that allows
> *posting* to a mailman-based lists with authentication, then yes, that  
> would be an option.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik
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