On Monday 23 April 2007 09:17:44 Brad Knowles wrote:
At 3:51 AM -0700 4/23/07, David Southwell wrote:
Has anyone done this?
Yes.
If so how successful?
Pretty successful.
How about username/password integration?
Hard to say. I know people who've done it (e.g., Curtis Preston), but I have not done it myself.
It would be really great to have mailman as a joomla/mambo module If not does anyone have any ideas how to go about this? I am posting a similar question in the joomla forum
If you search the FAQ Wizard for "joomla", or "content management systems", or "web board discussion systems", or "PHP", or "forum", or various related terms then you should come across FAQ 1.26. So far as I know, that is the latest information we have on this subject.
If you had already searched the FAQ Wizard on these subjects, please let us know what search terms you used that did *not* pull up FAQ 1.26, and we'll try to get it modified to suit.
If you have any more information to add to that FAQ entry, please feel free to make your own contribution (using the instructions provided in the FAQ Wizard itself) and let us know.
Yes I did read the FAQ but what was written there was not really specific enough. I did not want to be too critical of the FAQ so I did not mention what I had seen there when I originally posted.. but maybe that was remiss of me.
There was a interesting aside about some work done by Scot Harris but no link to him e or to the software mentioned or even an indication that the results of his work are available in the public domain. The implication of the FAQ was a need to look elsewhere for a generic solution for providing a module giving a full integration for Joomla and mailman. What the FAQ did do was to reinforce what I knew.. that such integration was possible.. but took me no further towards actually doing it.
Unfortunately, as in many other places, the FAQ, whilst providing many apparently hopeful mentions, which can be very useful in some instances, it seems that there have not been enough informed contributions. This means the work does not, in many places, have sufficient specific follow ups. Perhaps this is an indication that those of us who are new to mailman might perhaps pay more attention to turning the results of our learning experience into well written contributions that improve the quality of the FAQ over time.
Do not get me wrong-- I have found the FAQ can be really useful at times, but
the Mailman FAQ is a bit of a curates egg. Sometimes it seems like an FAQ but
it often seems more like a personal blog rather than a well focused piece of
work, written to a consistent, disciplined standard, giving comprehensive
step by step instructions in response to very specific and well crafted
questions.
My two pennorth with a big thank you to everyone who has got it to the current level.
david