On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 13:43, Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alrighty, here are the revised plans for beta3: > > * The second largest issue is that of the email address to assign to emails > created by forum posts. I don't know the internals of how the mailing list > software works, but some thoughts; > - Does the mailing allow a range of email addresses? For example using the > persons clean username like: "forums-chan...@postgresql.com.au" or > "forums-bobsm...@postgresql.com.au" hence we allow the > "forum...@postgresql.com.au" range? This way I can use a catch all address > and filter.
It does allow regular expressions in some ways, but I'm not sure it does it in this case - nor that it's the best idea. > - If theres an API to the mailing list that lets me register the persons > real email address without then having to get separate copies in their inbox > and also does not require a URL to be clicked to enable that email? There's no actual API, but it can be done - and has been done before - by screen-scraping the CGI interface. See for example https://github.com/mhagander/hamn/blob/master/listsync.py > * Quotation. Emails have a higher depth of quotation - it is not uncommon for > a single email to contain levels for the past 4 emails and this works well in > emails but not in a forum, this makes posts much longer then they need to be > in most cases and bloats the search with loads of repeated information. > For example phpBB3 by default limits the max quote level to 3 to stop > extraneous information. I'm still thinking of a solution for this. If you can find a way to represent it "the email way" in email and "the forum way" in the forums, that's obviously the best... > * Quotation ownership. You will notice that emails take the form something > like: > Bob Smith <b...@smith.com> wrote: >> 1 + 1 = 2? > Yes. > > The above gets translated only so that the ">" gets converted into the > [quote] tags for the forums display. But quoting in forums adds the ownership > into the quote block, so the above would look like (forums do this > automatically when you quote someone): > | Quote by [Bob Smith]: > | 1 + 1 = 2? > Yes. > > Where [Bob Smith] is a link to the forum user. I originally wrote this into > beta1 but saw there was no consistency and emails came in with "wrote:" > "writes:" or something that just didn't make sense at all so I disabled the > code until I was ready to work on it properly. I will institute it again - > wish me luck... You can't safely rely on that format of the quoting header. "Proper" quoting will always have > (top-posting often doesn't, but if we can't parse that into proper quotes, I don't think it's a problem), but you can't rely on the format of the row(s) before it. OTOH, if it gets wrong here and there it's not a big problem. it just mustn't get wrong too often :) > Nobody has made much comment on the permission of containing the mailing list > information and member email addresses in another container like a forum. I > understand that I can broadcast this information on other mailing lists (www > was mentioned) but if theres no absolute authority figure would it make any > serious difference from what we're already doing? We don't deal in authority figures, we deal in authority teams :-) Just like with the source to the database. There are some people who read -www that don't read -general. That are fairly critical. So I suggest moving the thread over there. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
