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(Apologies to all if my HTML-mail option is still turned on)
Birgitt, I've been writing an app that will do as you suggest for the company I work for. Its a newsgroup that automatically puts entries into an SQL database that can be searched on later. The biggest difference for my application is that I use an ASP web-based form to submit questions and answers. Unfortunately in doing this, I've had to do away with the ease of use offered by a listserve. Additionally, as the webmaster, I've made procedures so that only real answers and questions are submitted and I wrote a cleanup program that goes in an removes erroneous messages on a weekly basis. Anyway, it's fairly easy, and you can even verify all of the input information with Javascript to ensure that required fields are filled in. I see no reason why this kind of functionality can't be duplicated on a Mvend system.
Also, I found out what my problem was in setting up minivend. Apparently, My head was in my butt, as soon as I pulled it out, everything worked much better. :0) Actually, the machine I originally used wasn't set up correctly and as such it wasn't allowing minivend to run properly as a service. I set up another machine (this time, correctly) and everything works great! Now I've gotten 2 NT Servers set up with it and I'm moving to my first Linux installation. Thanks Group!
mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Birgitt Funk [mailto:birgitt@minivend.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 5:29 AM
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: Marking Title Messages, (was: Re: New User Comments)
****** message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com> ******
I like your suggestions a lot.
As a newbie who has to learn everything from scratch and needs to
scan several lists and groups, I have developped a passionate hate/love
affair with mailing lists and usenets groups. Nothing is so time
consuming and annoying and actually prevents from systematic learning
so much as to search for all the admittedly very useful information one
can find in a list like this one and others.
Mike Heins said in one of his posts to this list lately that in "tutoring"
someone via a mailing lists lies the way to madness. Agreed. To me it
seems sometimes that trying to learn from archived mailing list messages
goes the same way and direction.
Isn't there a way to provide a www-form to submit a post to a mailing
list, which would force the poster to fill out specific information in
regards to his subject category, operating system, error logs entries,
status of the post (question, answer, follow-up, resubmitted question,
discussion, off-topic, rant, kudos, thanks etc) and much more ?
If the poster doesn't fill out the form with the information one would
find necessary to answer the question and to provide a search engine
with meaningful hooks in the body of the mail message to search for,
the form's submission would be rejected. If there were "comments" fields
on the form, one still can express freely, but would enforce the "freedom
of speech" to be used responsably.
Just another entry on my christmas wish list for the year 2000. 8-)
Birgitt Funk
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