Hey, On 11/22/2010 09:45 AM, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Ludwig just mentioned that the mailinglist management (subscribe and unsubscribe) is not very user friendly. First, one has to find out how to do it (and the link to help is also not very exposed) and than one has to send wired mail to the list management software. Ok for geeks, a hurdle for ordinary people.
Well you have to send a mail to the mailinglist manager every time you want to post something right? If that's a hurdle for a user...
Why not have a list management page in Connect? Connect knows which email to use, could query a list of all available mailing lists and the subscription state from the list software and offer a nice page where one could click on and off the subscription state of mailing lists. Connect has to do the subscription change in background. Evaluation is not needed any more since the user is validated in connect.
What do you think? Doable?
Sure, everything is doable, you just have to do it ;-) Implementation wise I see a couple of hurdles. For starters the user data of lists is in no way coupled to any other user data we have. And I guess the overlap is not too big, there are tons of users on the lists that are just there for the lists. Also all the data of the mlm we use is not exposed over the network in any way. You would have to implement that part too. And, despite of what everybody seems to think, the subscription process is no formality. It serves the purpose of making sure delivery to the subscriber works. So you have to implement that part too. But of course all of that is doable. The question is if it's desirable to invest that much into it. For me it's not, that's why i never did anything about it. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help@opensuse.org