Dear folks,
I'm doing a research on "how anonymity in CMC influences communication behaviour among participants/communicators". This will be done in asynchronous mode, and I have chosen to use GNU Mailman rather than any other systems.
This is the list of the "anonymity feature" requirements that should be ideally able to include. particular data to the message? how can Mailman query and retrieve a data to
- Removing the sender identities (it has been solved, i think. in "privacy" setting and cleanse.py, right?)
- Archiving sent message (how is actually a message archived in Mailman?)
- Adding additional text from a database into a message before being distributed (is it possible to create text-based database and include a
be included -- how can Mailman "scan" a message and find a "keyword" and use the keyword to retrieve relevant data? 4. Other idea for the no.3 above, using "phantom messages" as the database. The problem is how can Mailman automatically add a phantom message to a message? 5. How to customise the text-wrapping (text area in the email) in Mailman? How to set, for example, the LEFT Margin to be 5 characters?
I think I have to stop. It has been too much. Sorry-sorry-sorry very much if this realy bothers you. I am desperate in doing this research ... :) I don't know how to do this. Not even a clue. I'm totally a new comer in Mailman, Python and this GNU environment, but I want to learn. Anyone can help me? (thanks to Barry Warsaw who encouraged me to join this milist. also for Yaron Zarfati, Detlef Neubauer & JC Lawrence who tried to solve my previous problems in handling the header. thanks!:)).
Cheers /Yanuar. PS. If any of you need further info, I can send my preliminary works/report via your individual emails. This probably helps you to know the context of my research.
Yanuar Nugroho http://yanuar-nugroho.mainpage.net http://www.yanuar-n.net
PG. Stud. MSc. Information Systems Engineering, Dept. of Computation, UMIST, Manchester - UK