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Hypermail has worked out very well for me. It provides a seemless
connection between the web and listserv. Some subscribers use the web
exclusively - as someone pointed out earlier, they need to be subscribed to
the list to post if SEND=Private. These subscribers are set to NOMAIL.
Other subscribers will never have the ability to use anything other than
email. We tried to make the system two-way relying heavily on the strong
structure Listserv provides.
The cgi script included with Hypermail for interconnecting the listserv and
the web never worked for me. I wrote a cgi script to create a better
interface between Hypermail and listserv no matter what list creates HTML
pages. Also, the program is easy to alter allowing one to add any
Netscapisms desired.
It should work on any system with a little modification from a UNIX guru
(which I am NOT). EIT has a licensing agreement that must be adhered to
also.
An example from the OPHTHAL list (no cgi links are active on these pages):
http://wings.buffalo.edu/medicine/oph/examples
Aiding in the proper functioning of the interface is "Procmail" - to
automatically append email messages into a file based on the "To:", "From:"
or "Subject:" lines. Hypermail reads the file and creates web pages. How
often the web pages are updated is something you should discuss with your
system administrator. There are ways to automatically update the web pages
as posts are received - some better than others.
Hypermail also will convert any HTML info.
This line would show up on a Hypermail page as an image:
<html>
<img src="http://wings.buffalo.edu/images/banners/stripe.gif">
</html>
The same conversion is true if the HTML pointed to a video, audio or other
type of link.
This is obviously not the best place to discuss Hypermail but Eric, a web
interface for Listserv is needed. Hypermail is good, but it does not
incorporate all the wonderful options Listserv has to offer. A
Listserv-web interface that incorporate's Hypermail-like functions,
Netspace's web-Listserv interface and others I probably never heard of is a
great idea. Maybe collaboration rather than duplication is an option?
Ray
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