I've mentioned my work on this project before in this forum, and I
thought this would be of interest to the subscribers of the list. Many
thanks to the individuals who participating in the testing and to Norm
Aleks for some very useful advice.
Take care,
David
_Annoucing_the Release_of_the_Mailing_List_WWW_Gateway_
The Mailing List WWW Gateway (LWGate) is a CGI script, written in
Perl, which is intended to:
* Present information about mailing lists to WWW users
* Assist users in executing mailing list commands though a user-
friendly forms-based interface
* Automatically generate a hypertext interface, on the fly, to list
archives available on the local server
With the LWGate, people browsing the WWW can read a description of
a mailing list, subscribe to a list, easily search a list's message
archives, browse the archives in a hypertext format, search for
other mailing lists, and much more. The LWGate supports mailing
lists provided by LISTSERV(TM), ListProcessor 6, and Majordomo
servers.
The LWGate is freely available under the GNU General Public Licence.
It can be installed on HTTP servers which support CGI scripts.
See below for directions on obtaining your own copy, but note that
the NetSpace LWGate will accept additions to its database.
* To see a functioning LWGate, go to the NetSpace LWGate:
<URL:http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/lwgate>
* To see an example of the LWGate's hypertext archive
capability, visit the Big-Linux archives:
<URL:http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/big-linux/archives/>
* To install the LWGate on your own server, visit the LWGate
WWW page. *Upgrades and bug-fixes will be announced here:*
<URL:http://www.netspace.org/users/dwb/lwgate.html>
* If you don't want to install the LWGate on your server, but
would like your list to be able to use it, request to be
added to the NetSpace LWGate:
<URL:http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/request-add.html>
David W. Baker | [log in to unmask] | <URL:http://www.netspace.org/users/dwb/>
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