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Pour ceux qui veulent fusionner mailman+newsgroup+forums

BNJ


----- Forwarded message from Grant Taylor <gtaylor@picante.com> -----

From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@picante.com>
To: Henrion Benjamin <bh@agl.ucl.ac.be>
Subject: Re: forum+news+mailman 
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:19:28 -0400
Message-Id: <200108031819.f73IJSHO031683@habanero.picante.com>

>>>>> Henrion Benjamin <bh@agl.ucl.ac.be> writes:

> i would like to do the same thing that you does on linuxprinting.org:
> coupling news+forum+mailman. HOWTO?

> PS: It 's a very good idea to have such news+forum+mailman, it could be
> useful to write a small piece of softawre and to release it? No?

It's actually trivial: mailmain includes a Usenet gateway feature out
of the box.  So you set up a parallel newsgroup for each list, point
mailman at it, and configure a web script interface to Usenet.  This
was the most subtle part, because most web-based usenet readers are
either awful or bloated or both.  The one I use is "newsportal"; it's
just a few little php3 scripts.  Works like a charm, and it was easy
to blend into my website's decor.  There may be other choices out
there, although last time I looked many were very overcomplicated. 

What I never figured out was why people persist in making all these
complicated sql-backed web-only forums from scratch, when Usenet
provides a robust, scalable, and even trivially mirrorable backend for
discussion forums already.  I guess people just like to write from
scratch...

--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
    Linux Printing Website and HOWTO:  http://www.linuxprinting.org/

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