gnhlug-discuss digest, Vol 1 #335 - 11 msgs

[Bruce Dawson]

> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:53:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: bscott
> Reply-To: discuss at gnhlug.org
> To: Greater NH Linux User Group <discuss at gnhlug.org>
> Subject: Re: Looking for MLM with web-based interface for users.
> 
> On 16 Feb 2003, at 4:45pm, sgarman at einstein.unh.edu wrote:
> > They are not technically trained enough to figure out mail filtering
> > software or otherwise deal with the problem on their end.
> 
>   That strikes me as a rather bad attitude.  They want their own experience
> to be improved, but refuse to invest anything in that improvement?  That
> does not bode well.

I have to agree with Ben. If they want something bad enough, users will
learn it. After that, they just whine about inconvenience.

> Well, in this case they see a solution that offers what they want -
> YahooGroups. The problem is, not everyone wants it.
> > > What they want is to be able to fully interact with the list via a web
> > > interface, including posting replies.

You may want to look into recent versions of mhonarc and hypermail.

> The PHP-Nuke setup you refer to above is pretty interesting. I've run a
> Slash-based site for a couple of years now, and I always liked the looks
> and features of PHP-Nuke. However, the vulnerabilities posted on Bugtraq
> on it practically every week or two (usually cross site scripting
> issues) have me kind of nervous. I'm not sure if this solution would be
> very intuitive to most of the users, either. But I won't rule it out
> just yet. 

I would like to dissuade you from using PHP-Nuke for this - what I did
was to hack PHP-Nuke's core, and that hacking is not portable to the
next release/version. Not at all. And PHP-Nuke isn't architected in such
a way as to make this sort of hack a module or plug-in.

However, I have found PHP-Nuke good for many other things - and the
"security violations" tend to involve PHP's (and PHP-NUKE's)
configuration as well as general site mis-management. Yes, there are
some bugs, (and a few are pretty bad), but I haven't found too many
problems that can't be fixed with the configuration or by upgrading to
the latest version.

--Bruce
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