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[Peter Farmer <address@concealed>]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 6:26 pm, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> It's a legitimate problem but tricky to solve :
>
> Some reception modes could coexist (like 'html' and 'nomail') while some
> others would not (summary and digest). it would be inbteresting to draw
> an array of all possible mix and check which of them make sense.
>
> Then we are afraid of some mix that would be difficult to implement
> (like digest + topics). Basically it would require that we store an
> individual digest for each list member (because they could all have
> selected different topics).

ok that is a bit nasty.

> I don't think we want to go into this direction...

fair enough - but I NEED to have _at least_ topics + html & topics + text 
only available (forget digests+topics) to match the functionality on the 
existing system i am replacing with SYMPA . 
Otherwise I will have to create 154+ mailinglists each with only 1 (fixed) 
topic instead of  1 list with 154+ topics - which seems much easier to 
implement, especially as I will be building custom pages in our CMS to 
handle the default web based subscription process anyway. The mailinglist 
that I want to create for this project is basically sending the latest 
version of a specific web page to interested subscribers every time its 
contents are significantly updated (and yes we do have RSS feeds, but we 
also have 20000 subscribers who prefer the email updates)

So if i am going to go ahead and implement this, I guess I could create this 
array of combinations and allow the ones that I need or are easy to 
implement (and that make sense 8-), and block anything that isnt 
implemented or sensible.
 
If it cant be folded back into the main code base then I'll just have to 
maintain a set of patches . It would be nice to fold it back in though ...


> Peter Farmer wrote:
> >I'm not sure if this a question for the sympa-users or sympa-dev lists .
> >I'm asking here first in case I've missed something in the users
> > documentation ....
> >
> >I'd like to use the topics feature with digested, html, text only, and
> > standard 'reception' modes though the gui in the wwwsympa implies that
> > they are mutually exclusive - a subscriber can only be subscribed in
> > standard reception mode.
> >
> >If this is not just a configuration issue, and does requires some
> >reprogramming, can anyone hazard a guess as to how much work would be
> > involved. I'd like a rough idea of the work involved before I go down
> > that path ....