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MattF wrote:I don't fear. It's a simple fact. Those mailing lists do have the deluge. They merely have the correct restrictions in place to make sure it never reaches the lists themselves, most of the time.
Semantics. The point is that mailing lists prevent spam from reaching the subscribers which would be equally valid for making sure it does not reach the forum pages as well.
MattF wrote:Not exactly what you would call a light method. If the forum is dealing with the posts and their replies, the forum should deal with the processing. The main MTA's can easily enough have a pipe transport set up to forward the message to the relevant forum script for further processing. List software should be a choice, not a prerequisite.
I think you are underestimating the value of good list management software. It's far more than just an alias expander. It could start out as a few lines of code which sends posts out via the MTA but I'd guess before you were done, you would have for the most part re-written Mailman. Why re-invent the wheel? Mailman is really not that heavy. I'd say for the most part the MTA does more work that Mailman does.
MattF wrote:You'd need to be extra vigilant to details with this type of mod. If done incorrectly, it would be opening a forum up to spam with a vengeance.
Indeed, it would have to be done with the same kind of controls that most mailing lists use currently like confirmed subscriber post only, etc. Most mailing lists today survive without the deluge of spam you are fearing.
Indeed, it would probably be smart to leverage the most popular MLM out there, Mailman, and simply gateway the forum into/out of that.
MattF also wrote:Edit: The correct term is a bridge, btw, not gateway. 
Maybe. How do you figure bridge is the right term and gateway is not?
While I can understand how people might like to type into web pages to post to forums and then keep coming back many times a day to see if they got any responses, some of us have days that are just too busy for such "polling" for information.
I want to propose an e-mail<->forum gateway. That is, when a new message is posted to a forum, I get an e-mail with the topic as a Subject: and the posting contents in the body. I should be able to reply to such an e-mail in my e-mail composer and have my reply posted back to the forum.
This way, I get to participate in the forums in a more interrupt driven manner and I get to use that same interrupting tool to not only read but respond to forum posts. Effectively the forums would look like a mailing list to me in my mail program.
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