On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:54:11 -0500 Ned Lilly ned@greatbridge.com wrote:

Bek Oberin wrote:

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Menega Sabidussi wrote:

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3. what must one do to enable "posting from the web"?

Not possible.

We've got that working in a prototype on our site, and will contribute the patch as soon as we clean it up.

I currently do this by using MHonArc as an external archiver to generate PHP files of the messages, which then support the ability to post replies via the web.

Its proven fairly popular with my list members.

BTW, we're also looking at porting the message storage (and user info, etc) to a PostgreSQL backend. Has anybody else done anything along these lines?

I've toyed with it but haven't taken the leap. The PHP files that I have MHonArc creating are simple lists of variable assignments. It would be fairly easy to take these sets of variable assignments and use them as the source data for SQL INSERT commands.

In fact I've played with a couple basic fault intolerant scripts to do this and they worked for as far as I was interested in taking them then. The really intersting stuff, which I was looking towards but never got as far as, was then dynamically building appropriately threaded and extracted-view indexes from the SQL side (you can get really interesting on that score).

Note: MHonArc re-writes preciously archived messages to patch in forward pointers (threads etc) as relevant. This would need to be accounted for.

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