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Hi!
Is it possible to get a web-frontend to a mailinglist?
I think about a forum where you have threaded display of the messages and can post messages through the web without subscribing.
Would be nice to have a bridge between these two "worlds"
Please CC to me, I am not on the list.
thomas
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Thomas Guettler wrote:
Mailman-to-news, which is already present in Mailman does essentially that.
Please CC to me, I am not on the list.
Why not? There's a great deal of help here...
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I've searched for information on the Mailman-to-news since I'm looking for a way to allow answering list messages from the web also. Is there documentation online about this? Does it require running a private news server?
Thanks,
Damon Linkous
Sorry to Ashley for two copies of this, I'm not used to lists that "Reply" goes to an individual instead of the list.
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Yes, or at least working with a news provider that allows you to add newsgroups--though in the latter case you've got to deal with a wider audience.
I think what the other poster was recommending was using newsgroups *instead* of a web forum. Otherwise, once you've got the newsgroup running you still need to create the Usenet-Web gateway software. We've done it, but it required programming (I don't know if there are any off-the-shelf solutions for Usenet-Web gateways).
Jerry
jerry@sandiego.edu http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773
The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the government¹s power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi
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What I was really looking for is what the original poster asked (and what this thread subject is). I'm building a new home for an active Yahoo Group, a lot of the members read and post to the mail list exclusively from the Yahoo Group. I haven't found anything that would let Mailman (or any other mail list software) do the same thing.
I only asked about the News Gateway because it was mentioned as a standard Mailman feature, it seems like a Web Gateway would be a lot more popular.
Any Ideas?
Damon Linkous
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Stratton" <jerry@sandiego.edu> To: <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Web Forum Frontend to Mailinglist
Yes, or at least working with a news provider that allows you to add newsgroups--though in the latter case you've got to deal with a wider audience.
I think what the other poster was recommending was using newsgroups *instead* of a web forum. Otherwise, once you've got the newsgroup running you still need to create the Usenet-Web gateway software. We've done it, but it required programming (I don't know if there are any off-the-shelf solutions for Usenet-Web gateways).
Jerry
jerry@sandiego.edu http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773
The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the government¹s power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
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Damon Linkous wrote:
You may be better of building a Forum with email capabilities. There are a few of those around.
You can either log onto the forum to read and reply to messages, or use the email interface to post/receive messages. Unfortunately, this is outside the scope of Mailman (even the News gateway is).
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Hi all,
Like Damon Linkous, I too came to the Mailman doorsteps looking for an alternative to Yahoogroups for my current community of three email lists.
Does anyone know of an open source package _Web forum/email list combination_ out there that I could look into hosting on a virtual Web host space?
Any leads at all appreciated.
Thanks,
Roger Chrisman teflchina.com
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Damon wrote:
From the nntp_host description page:
nntp_host (gateway): The Internet address of the machine your News server is running on.
The News server is not part of Mailman proper. You have to already have access to a NNTP server, and that NNTP server has to recognize the machine this mailing list runs on as a machine capable of reading and posting news.
So the answer here is, yes you need one. Unless you can ask your ISP to allow you to use their NNTP
server...or arrange something else.
-- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
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Thomas Guettler wrote:
Mailman-to-news, which is already present in Mailman does essentially that.
Please CC to me, I am not on the list.
Why not? There's a great deal of help here...
-- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dee7ce2115665d333c1e4b197f7bdee7.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
I've searched for information on the Mailman-to-news since I'm looking for a way to allow answering list messages from the web also. Is there documentation online about this? Does it require running a private news server?
Thanks,
Damon Linkous
Sorry to Ashley for two copies of this, I'm not used to lists that "Reply" goes to an individual instead of the list.
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/84c685ac41c48cb8a7ac8b7e8cf4bafe.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Yes, or at least working with a news provider that allows you to add newsgroups--though in the latter case you've got to deal with a wider audience.
I think what the other poster was recommending was using newsgroups *instead* of a web forum. Otherwise, once you've got the newsgroup running you still need to create the Usenet-Web gateway software. We've done it, but it required programming (I don't know if there are any off-the-shelf solutions for Usenet-Web gateways).
Jerry
jerry@sandiego.edu http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773
The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the government¹s power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/00e3872cc2816a7e3f216f7121d6fbb9.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
What I was really looking for is what the original poster asked (and what this thread subject is). I'm building a new home for an active Yahoo Group, a lot of the members read and post to the mail list exclusively from the Yahoo Group. I haven't found anything that would let Mailman (or any other mail list software) do the same thing.
I only asked about the News Gateway because it was mentioned as a standard Mailman feature, it seems like a Web Gateway would be a lot more popular.
Any Ideas?
Damon Linkous
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Stratton" <jerry@sandiego.edu> To: <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Web Forum Frontend to Mailinglist
Yes, or at least working with a news provider that allows you to add newsgroups--though in the latter case you've got to deal with a wider audience.
I think what the other poster was recommending was using newsgroups *instead* of a web forum. Otherwise, once you've got the newsgroup running you still need to create the Usenet-Web gateway software. We've done it, but it required programming (I don't know if there are any off-the-shelf solutions for Usenet-Web gateways).
Jerry
jerry@sandiego.edu http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773
The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the government¹s power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
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Damon Linkous wrote:
You may be better of building a Forum with email capabilities. There are a few of those around.
You can either log onto the forum to read and reply to messages, or use the email interface to post/receive messages. Unfortunately, this is outside the scope of Mailman (even the News gateway is).
-- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
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Hi all,
Like Damon Linkous, I too came to the Mailman doorsteps looking for an alternative to Yahoogroups for my current community of three email lists.
Does anyone know of an open source package _Web forum/email list combination_ out there that I could look into hosting on a virtual Web host space?
Any leads at all appreciated.
Thanks,
Roger Chrisman teflchina.com
![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3744bbfcb703bf1b3e473fd93e0c013c.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Damon wrote:
From the nntp_host description page:
nntp_host (gateway): The Internet address of the machine your News server is running on.
The News server is not part of Mailman proper. You have to already have access to a NNTP server, and that NNTP server has to recognize the machine this mailing list runs on as a machine capable of reading and posting news.
So the answer here is, yes you need one. Unless you can ask your ISP to allow you to use their NNTP
server...or arrange something else.
-- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
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