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So one of the things (one of the only things) that I liked about Yahoo! Groups was the ability to reply to threads by e-mail. I think that would be a fairly useful add on. That way if you subscribe to receive announcements about new thread posts you can reply to the e-mail announcement and it will be automatically placed in the thread... is this feasible?<
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Without the why's and what-for's I'm having a tough time trying to justify the amount of work this would take. (Outside of 'well, they're paying for it, so I'll give it')
Why is it that it must be a forum with the e-mail feature as opposed to a mailing list? Have you seen any other forums that use this feature?<
Why is it that it must be a forum with the e-mail feature as opposed to a mailing list? Have you seen any other forums that use this feature?<
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Here's some non programming advice:
Some people/companies prefer to keep interns in the dark about their motives. There's some psychology behind it that if you keep people in the dark enough they
will work their behinds off to please their superior.
A lot of interns (or people in general) find it intimidating to ask for clear information.
However, if this person wants a forum with email replies, while there are NO known forums
that support this feature then either he's pulling it out of thin air OR he's looking for
something completely different.
And you DO NOT want to spend a whole lot of time on this only to find out that it is NOT what
this person is looking for.
Best thing to do is to ask him for examples of forums that do this and his motivations.
I know, this might not be the info you are looking for and you probably would rather have me
post a link to a downloadable solution, but in the end this might be much more valuable than
the actual mod. Because if this person is only complaining to complain then he will not use the feature for long
and the project will be doomed regardless. Ask him for more info and he will be forced to question his own demands as well as provide you
with more accurate info on what he is really, really, really, really looking for.
Sorry, hope I don't come off as a prick but to me it smells like a situation you can not win regardless unless you know the motivation behind it and I seriously doubt that will you be able
to put together a forum with an email function that this will make your project into a success.
Good luck with this.
Dominic
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Some people/companies prefer to keep interns in the dark about their motives. There's some psychology behind it that if you keep people in the dark enough they
will work their behinds off to please their superior.
A lot of interns (or people in general) find it intimidating to ask for clear information.
However, if this person wants a forum with email replies, while there are NO known forums
that support this feature then either he's pulling it out of thin air OR he's looking for
something completely different.
And you DO NOT want to spend a whole lot of time on this only to find out that it is NOT what
this person is looking for.
Best thing to do is to ask him for examples of forums that do this and his motivations.
I know, this might not be the info you are looking for and you probably would rather have me
post a link to a downloadable solution, but in the end this might be much more valuable than
the actual mod. Because if this person is only complaining to complain then he will not use the feature for long
and the project will be doomed regardless. Ask him for more info and he will be forced to question his own demands as well as provide you
with more accurate info on what he is really, really, really, really looking for.
Sorry, hope I don't come off as a prick but to me it smells like a situation you can not win regardless unless you know the motivation behind it and I seriously doubt that will you be able
to put together a forum with an email function that this will make your project into a success.
Good luck with this.
Dominic
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Apparently the Yahoo forums use this feature. It truly is simply a case of not wanting to have to type in the web address which is sheer laziness but being the intern, I'm afraid I don't have any say in this. As you have pointed out, I haven't been able to find a single forum solution with the e-mail reply function. Basically what I've done is simply left our Snitz forum live so that when the developers get done sniffing around for other solutions (and realize that there aren't any) then I can say, well... we still have this forum set up. And it has every single function you're looking for except the lazy one. So feel free to use it<
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the difference is that yahoo forums are not forums, they are a web front end to yahoo newsgroups the two are very different animals<
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It truly is simply a case of not wanting to have to type in the web address which is sheer laziness but being the intern
The intern only needs to click a link to be taken directly to the topic where they can enter their response immediately (if quick reply is on).
I've thought a bit about allowing email replies and (for me at least) it comes down to the following problem;
Theres no way to ensure that the person sending the email is in fact the actual owner of the forum account unless you authenticate them some way. If you use only their email address to authenticate then anyone could impersonate another user just by setting up their email client differently. The other option would be to have their username and password entered somewhere in the body of the email but thats not a road I would go down for security & privacy reasons. At the end of the day it would be easier for the user to click the link rather than type their password in the body of the email anyway.<
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If you do need to get a list server with a web front end see here - http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#1.7<