hello everybody
apologize for my posting to this list, but i would like to share an
idea i had some time ago.
Most of us are subscribted to several mailinglists, forums , irc and
using socialmedia sites like facebook and/ or twitter.
Would´nt it be a great idea if there was a mailman plugin whitch post
automaticily to a facebook fanpage/profile or group
or s special twitter account to share this information ?
Right now i go the the mailinglist archive of mailman, find the
message i would like to share, use an url shortener of my choice ,
keep the headline and tweet it.
Would´nt it be cool if this would be automated ? Is there a way todo
this or are you guys planing something like this in the future ?
Thanks for reading
Marc
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 03:25:06PM +0100, "Marc Manthey (macbroadcast )" wrote:
Most of us are subscribted to several mailinglists, forums , irc and
using socialmedia sites like facebook and/ or twitter.Would´nt it be a great idea if there was a mailman plugin whitch post
automaticily to a facebook fanpage/profile or group or s special twitter account to share this information ?
I'm not convined that a plugin is needed (for Mailman 2); more third-party functionality; perhaps something that could be integrated within MM3, though (http://code.google.com/p/python-tumblr/ exists: I've not used it, and passwords rather than tokens puts me off it.)
One of my instances use something based on
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_emailto get from list -> blog.
I'd imagine that something could similarily post to facebook/twitter, maybe linkedin, using their APIs: a problem could be formatting, though. I think, really, those are best handled as complimentary to the email.
Right now i go the the mailinglist archive of mailman, find the message i would like to share, use an url shortener of my choice , keep the headline and tweet it.
That could all be done through a (cron'd) script. An exercise, left down to the reader :o)
Would´nt it be cool if this would be automated ? Is there a way todo
this or are you guys planing something like this in the future ?
If I wanted to tweet, automatically, I'd use cron, or if feeling perverse, even procmail/an action in a sieve filter.
For Wordpress, we use the email -> blog feature, and tidy-up manually (which takes a bit of time: I've often wondered if it would be quicker to do manually).
For Facebook, it'd probably be easier to syndicate the content from elsewhere, or do it via the API (which seems to change each time I have to dip in to it).
I've not had a reason/want to use the LinkedIn API.
If I were doing this now, I'd just use Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/(en|de)/integration http://www.tumblr.com/docs/(en|de)/api/v2#posting http://www.tumblr.com/docs/(en|de)/email_publishing
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On Jan 07, 2012, at 03:25 PM, Marc Manthey (macbroadcast ) wrote:
Most of us are subscribted to several mailinglists, forums , irc andusing socialmedia sites like facebook and/ or twitter.
I've long thought that there are enough overlaps with mailing lists, archives, and forums and I think that there are some interesting things we could do here. In my mind the difference is based on the depth of the emotional connection you have to the community. For example, with python-dev I have a deep and long-term connection to it, so I'm happy to subscribe and get my inbox filled with messages from it. But for something like dbus, I care deeply but only for a short amount of time. I.e. when I'm working in that area, I need to interact with that community, but then I'm out. The overhead of subscribing and unsubscribing is too much. Gmane helps a lot here, as does some of the techniques we implemented in Mailman's integration in Launchpad, and I'm keeping this in mind during MM3 development.
Certainly, MM3 has the APIs that should make it fairly easy to integrate these types of media in both directions, so I encourage folks to explore these ideas.
Cheers, -Barry
Barry Warsaw writes:
On Jan 07, 2012, at 03:25 PM, Marc Manthey (macbroadcast ) wrote:
Most of us are subscribted to several mailinglists, forums , irc andusing socialmedia sites like facebook and/ or twitter.
I've long thought that there are enough overlaps with mailing lists, archives, and forums and I think that there are some interesting things we could do here.
I disagree, philosophically. Automatically reposting to different primary publication channels smells of spam to me.
The interesting things to be done are in content aggregation (ie, "smart pull" media), but Mailman is a "push" medium.
This is pure opinion; I don't at all expect everybody to agree, but I wanted to express the point of view.
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