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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:57:52AM +0100, Moran, Matthew wrote: > JJ asked: > > > How about using Siesta? > > Sounds like a good idea - it's kind of eating our own dogfood in a way, > using a perl-based list manager. Sounds exciting. Oh wait, I spelled excruciating wrong :) > Or alternatively, as this article suggests: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/2234228&mode=thread&tid=111&tid= > 126&tid=188&tid=95 we could go to an RSS feed based thing? I know I > can aggregate RSS feeds into my Livejournal friends list... And then you can post how, exactly? (Bonus points if you can not lose the threading information or turn it into a web forum) I've actually been half-thinking of this on and off for the past couple of months, and certainly over the last week as this cursed RSS lists meme spread. Unfortunately that means I have to do an overthought spool out now so I'm crossposting. Sorry about that. As far as I can think it through, the RSS thing is for two reasons. Lazyness and SPAM. They want to be able to passively read many lists without bothering to subscribe, but they still want to be able to post at some point. Now as often happens, someone will have been doing something very like that already, and not see the point in this new movement. For sake of argument let's call that guy Richard. Now Richard reads a bunch of mailing lists via nntp, but forced into his MUA via a simple perl script[0]. When he comes to post he just replies, and since the lists have good spam detection in front of them it's allowed through without list membership. Or, to another list it might have to go through moderator approval. Those lists are nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.* and nntp://hates-software.com/hates-software.all Richard is me. The final piece, once you've accepted that nntp is probably more convenient than RSS, is stealing the "I don't want to subscribe, periodically challenge me" idea. I think that's as simple as two simple Siesta plugins, if Siesta is your cup of tea. One to do the periodic challenging, and the other to parse the response and update the "confirmed human" table. As with all overthought things, this peters out at the end. [0] http://unixbeard.net/svn/richardc/mail/nntp_deliver -- Richard Clamp <richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
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