Hi Paul,> From my notes, we decided the easiest, most straightforward way to solve it > was to use sympa. It's highly configurable, and has both a forum and a > mailing list interface, and sets forum replies up in a email-friendly > fashion, and neatly sidesteps the security problems that seem to plague many > of the php-based forum packages at the time. I set aside an afternoon to get > it set up and working, and got it done in about an hour altogether from the > Debian package.Do you have it up in a publicly viewable test mode? Sympa was not one of the packages I looked at when I did my survey, so I'm game to take a look. Their public demo looked interesting, but I thought it would be useful to look at a configuration that was tuned to be a wine-users mailman/phpbb replacement. Cheers, Jeremy
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 March 2008 06:19:53 am Jeremy White wrote:> Hi Paul, > > > From my notes, we decided the easiest, most straightforward way to solve > > it was to use sympa. It's highly configurable, and has both a forum and > > a mailing list interface, and sets forum replies up in a email-friendly > > fashion, and neatly sidesteps the security problems that seem to plague > > many of the php-based forum packages at the time. I set aside an > > afternoon to get it set up and working, and got it done in about an hour > > altogether from the Debian package. > > Do you have it up in a publicly viewable test mode? Sympa was not one of > the packages I looked at when I did my survey, so I'm game to take a look.I'm afraid I don't.> Their public demo looked interesting, but I thought it would be useful to > look at a configuration that was tuned to be a wine-users mailman/phpbb > replacement.I'm a little confused, since that's what sympa is by definition... - -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6mKLUCxPKZafKh0RAkxaAKDYTBjhEJOI7snSRllNdJ2BEEWrbACfUX8/ NyYgIcxsozF1JZFvyaax30A=NJjx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> Do you have it up in a publicly viewable test mode? Sympa was not one of >> the packages I looked at when I did my survey, so I'm game to take a look. > > I'm afraid I don't. > >> Their public demo looked interesting, but I thought it would be useful to >> look at a configuration that was tuned to be a wine-users mailman/phpbb >> replacement. > > I'm a little confused, since that's what sympa is by definition...Well, when you create a list, you get a range of choices. Two seem like likely candidates; one is public mailing list, and one is Web Forum. I'm not sure exactly what the difference is. I've set up a 'Web Forum' on their demo server: http://demo.sympa.org/sympa/info/wine-test So far, the archives aren't viewable yet, so I'm not really able to assess it. Hopefully that's just a matter of some time so I can look further. Cheers, Jeremy
Paul Johnson wrote:> > It wouldn't surprise me if they've disabled archiving to prevent spammers from > abusing their demo server. >No, it just took a while. So I don't like forums, and don't feel qualified to judge whether or not this is better. So I'd appreciate it folks that *like* forums could give this a look and see what they think: http://demo.sympa.org/sympa/info/wine-test I'm afraid that, imho, the bar for replacing phpbb needs to be set high. All of the extra traffic is clear evidence to me that phpbb has accomplished the primary goal - enabling a greater range of users to connect. (And yes, I'm all too aware that some folks think that it's had some bad side effects, but still imho, these are all just healthy growing pains...) Cheers, Jeremy