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[Jeff Abbott <address@concealed>]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:

> I just discovered the Duke University mailing list service and  
> wanted to share this finding with you :
> https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/
>
> It's a great example of Sympa GUI customization.

Thanks for the words of praise, Olivier!  I'm a fan of giving credit  
where it's due, though, and while I invested a great deal of time and  
labor in getting our Sympa installation looking as good as possible,  
I couldn't have done it without the "Rin" WordPress theme <http:// 
www.brokenkode.com/rin>, the power and capability of Template Toolkit  
2, and the ease of producing local and robot-level customizations for  
Sympa -- you guys have designed the different layers where one can  
change look and feel exceptionally well, and it is one of my favorite  
features of Sympa.

Also note that because Rin is GPL'd, my customizations are GPL'd as  
well.  I've put copies of the web_tt2 directory up at:

  https://lists.duke.edu/sympa-tt2/

Please drop me a line if you end up using these templates for  
anything -- I'd love to know where and by whom they're being used!

If I'd wanted to do something similar with Mailman (you may have  
heard of it, I think it manages some mailing lists or something ;) ),  
I'd have to do some hacking at the code itself, which would've meant  
we couldn't use vendor-maintained packages and could've caused more  
serious problems.

> Maybe we should start a contest for of the most different-looking  
> Sympa server...

I'd love to see what some of the other sites are doing!

> It also reminds us that Sympa still lacks a good user  
> documentation...we're working on it.

Perhaps some of the sites that have written up guides for their users  
would be willing to throw in what they've got, where possible...

Thanks,
Jeff (address@concealed)

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