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@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,
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