Re: user contributions to Zope.org (Mangled text)
--- In zope@egroups.com, Stephen Harrison <stephen@n...> wrote:
Joe Hewitt wrote:
Very cool. Would it be possible for NIP to include a reply feature like in Egroups? I tell you how I operate with the newsgroups. Which might be common to a lot of people. (1) I browse on Egroups. I don't want to receive thousands of messages directly from mailing lists. (2) When I feel like I want to post some thing, I use my e-mail account. (3) I use Egroups so I can generate a reply-quoted message (lines starting with the > symbol), I cut and paste to my e-mail account, I send off the message. Egroups is pretty good at that. The part that is slowing me down is the e-mail address mangling. If NIP can offer a reply-quoted-message, that'll be great. If it can offer membership so I can browse and reply from NIP directly, that'll be even better. :) Nowadays, for posting messages to the Zope list, I have to have 3 browser windows open: I simultaneously access Egroups, Zope.org and my Hotmail accounts. Not an easy life. But that's still a heck lot better than receiving 1000 messages per day from all the lists that I frequent. :) If NIP can help me to bring down the number of browsers windows to 2, or 1, that'll be really nice. :) For now, I still have to rely on Egroups to generate the reply-quoted message. I guess I'll use it in combination with NIP or the AIMS group. I hate the black background color of AIMS group, by the way. :) regards, Hung Jung ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Hung Jung Lu wrote:
--- In zope@egroups.com, Stephen Harrison <stephen@n...> wrote:
Joe Hewitt wrote:
Very cool.
Would it be possible for NIP to include a reply feature like in Egroups?
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If NIP can offer a reply-quoted-message, that'll be great.
There are ways that this could be done, unfortunately none of them are quite as simple as they should be, which means that is is unlikely that we can find the resources to put on it.
If it can offer membership so I can browse and reply from NIP directly, that'll be even better. :) [snip]
The main problem with membership is that it raises a whole host of licensing issues which we really don't want to get into. All the points you have raised are valid and good ideas, but they don't fit too well with the way we are currently running the archives. They are, however, features which would be well suited to a zope implementation and that is something which may be on the cards at some point in the future, just not right now (other commitments, workload, etc.). The archives as they stand were created with a specific purpose in mind, to fill a niche in the community. They tools we chose to do it were ones which allowed us to meet that need quickly and easily. Unfortunately, what you are asking for doesn't fit into the original model too well. Sorry I could't be more help. Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Harrison stephen@nipltd.com New Information Paradigms www.nipltd.com
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