Re: FN-FORUM: Sorry...

date posted 18th September 2007 17:39


On 18 Sep 2007, at 12:27, [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> Quoting Dan Winchester [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
>>
>>> You could always use something that's been thoroughly
>>> debugged and provides things like references so we can
>>> have proper threading...
>>
>> We've looked at Mailman before, but the existing forum is quite
>> integrated into the site, and it would be a lot of work to move
>> elsewhere.
>
> But that would be a one-time effort. As opposed to the frequent fixes
> that you're currently having to do.
>
> And whilst we've got your attention, is there any chance that you
> could fix the bug where the list mails don't have a "Precedence: bulk"
> or "Precedence: list" header. That would hopefully cut down on the
> number of autoresponders that feel obliged to respond to list
> messages.

and one of the issues with public display of list messages live (and
sometimes prior to posting) on the website is the unfortunate
googling of clients names that happens frequently.

I suspect the FN-Forum would work better as a closed private threaded
mailing list...

;)