Re: Forums at postgresql.com.au

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Dave Page's message of vie nov 19 11:43:34 -0300 2010:
>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > However if I had signed up to the forum (and not the mailing list) my >From would have to be subscribed for the mailing list to accept it like:
>> > Elliot Chance <forums(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)au>
>> > John Smith <forums(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)au>
>> > ... etc.
>> >
>> > OK, so after a brief background I'd like to organise a solution. Without any other feasible option would this generic address system be allowed?
>>
>> I wouldn't be happy with that as it prevents private replies to the
>> author and would make it easy to send what was intended as a private
>> reply to the public forums by mistake.
>
> Isn't that a secondary use case, though?  It would be easy to solve this
> by providing a URL to the post in the forum that you can click; assuming
> the forum interface gives you the option to reply privately.

But I don't want to use the forums - I want to carry on using the
mailing lists as I do now, without having to examine a recipients
address to figure out if its private or not, in the odd case that I
feel a private response is required.

> I wonder if the mailing list would alow posting from an address like
> forums+1357(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)au if only forums(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)au is
> subscribed.  The number or string after the + would presumably be the
> user ID in the forum or some unique identifier.  (Extra points if the
> mailing software at that domain forwards email to the user when sent to
> that address (or maybe a PM in the forum system) -- this would solve
> Dave's concern.)

That would solve it, yes. I don't think mj2 will allow that though -
we've been looking for something similar for sysadmin use.

Note also that having messages come from a single user will also limit
our ability to search the archives effectively.

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