Re: [Mailman-Developers] Web Posting Interface: Additional Features.

On 29 Apr 2013, at 09:39, Peter Markou <markoupetr@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
The first thing to remember is that there are at least three types of user:
Site admins List admins List members
And, of course there will be a variety of levels of technical skill within each user set. I imagine that a Web Posting Interface will be for List Members. They'll need to be able to access their personal profile, list archives, and a form for composing and sending a message to the list. In my view, the essential features for that are:
A nice editing tool, that a list admin can configure to send ONLY unformatted text. That should probably be the default for new lists, for new members, and for new messages.
The tool should do it's utmost to preserve threads when a member is replying to a message, but not otherwise.
If the message is a reply, then the rest of the thread messages should have some visibility: to discourage members from replying before they've seen the whole thread.
There should be a link to a profile page, but it would be neat if the profile page could leverage some existing identity. Various options exist, but given that we have an email address, we can often get some profile information from the email service provider, for example when they're openid providers. Don't work on this until 1-3 are complete.
There should be a link to a list archive. An archive browser is probably a project of its own.
My view is that the keyword and topic type stuff all belong in (5), if anywhere at all. In the message posting page, they'd be unnecessary clutter.
-- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148
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