Callum Lerwick wrote: > Oh dear god the new list seems to be reply-to-author by default? YAY! > Oh well, breaking tradition and user expectations in the name of > correctness is the right thing to do. *NOD* > Mailing lists are still an immense outdated kludge. Now if only NNTP > allowed server side state. Or IMAP clients allowed you to easily post > a message into a folder without replying to something. Actually, you can post something into a folder, IIRC, if you have public folders shared/enabled. IMAP allows for different namespaces [1]_, including #mh, #news, #ftp, and even ~. Theoretically, you COULD run an IMAP server for clients that do not have publically accessible email addresses. Email clients assume that you want to send email through an SMTP server, where as in fact, you could dump messages into any IMAP folder. The fault is in the client, not the protocol. BRAINSTORM: What if you had a drop-box for outgoing email on your IMAP server. It picks up messages and pops them over to its SMTP server for delivery. You wouldn't even need SMTP for your IMAP client! In fact, tying into your following suggestion, you could create a #bbs namespace that would be a public shared folder. > Sigh, so many ways to get it almost but not quite right... What the > world needs is... > > Citadel/UX! http://uncensored.citadel.org/citadel/ Cool. Forgot it even existed. I'll have to take a look at it. > Which I have packaged here: http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/ Yay. .. [1] $ahttp://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050120/91904694/attachment.pgp