Looking for MLM with web-based interface for users.

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On 17 Feb 2003, at 12:22am, sgarman at einstein.unh.edu wrote:
>>   I believe they are looking for a feature of mail/news software called
>> "threading", which keeps track of threads-of-conversation.
> 
> Indeed. But then of course they would have to understand the netiquette of
> changing subject lines when the topic of a thread of discussion changes,
> which very few people actually do. Even I'm not religious enough about
> this, I admit.

  Myself, also.  However, since discussion threads usually follow a chain of
replies, software can look at the "Message-ID" and "In-Reply-To" headers to
build a "discussion tree".

>> 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.
> 
> Well, in this case they see a solution that offers what they want -
> YahooGroups. The problem is, not everyone wants it.

  I would be sorely tempted to say "Don't let the door hit your butt on the
way out", but I suppose that wouldn't be very productive.  ;-)

> However, the vulnerabilities posted on Bugtraq on it practically every
> week or two (usually cross site scripting issues) have me kind of nervous
> [about PHP-Nuke].

  Given Bruce's description of how he got PHP-Nuke to do what he has it
doing, I would say that's a dead-end anyway.

  Still, given the huge field of web-BBS software out there (it seems like
everyone and their brother has written one), I would be surprised if
*something* didn't do it.

  You may also want to look at mail<->news gateway software.  Not that
gating the email list to a newsgroup gives you want you are asking for, but
it may put you one step closer.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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