Hi, On Friday, February 17, 2006 at 15:58:12, houghi wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:26:44PM +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Which makes little sense at all. You put your email address into the webinterface to get a confirmation request over mail. Why anyone would use a webinterface to deal with mailinglists anyway is beyond me.
It does not have to make sence to you, it has to make sence to the people using it. ;-)
Im default list-owner/part of ml-admin for some years now. Ive got maybe 5 requests for a webinterface to manage subscriptions. So my users dont want a webinterface. Quite the converse, i think it helped building the high quality lists that we have today that there isnt a webinterface. And maybe i does not have to make sense to me but i have to administrate it.
Especialy that last one can be very handy on busy mailinglists. Yes, this can be done with sending mails. A webinterface however is more user-friendly.
A webinterface like this can be implemented by simple input boxes. Like we did here
http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/
That is only for the subscribe part. I realy like the fact that you get a 'personal space' where you can change settinings.
This can be done also with some simple php/perl scripts. You wont (and dont want to) get around the confirmation mail.
Especially the temporay stop is something I would find handy.
Call it what you want but that is just a unsubscribe when you dont want mails and a subscribe when you want them again. You gain nothing with it: temporay stop == {start temporay stop,stop temporay stop} reality == {unsubscribe,subscribe} Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)