Subj : RE: Shazrad]corrections To : All From : royall@hal-pc.org Date : Tue Aug 01 2000 04:05 pm From: "Scott Royall" Subject: RE: Shazrad]corrections That's a fair question deserving a fair answer. However, I really should explain that read-only access for the echo would essentially turn the posts into a string of ads for a game elsewhere. That's against the echo rules because we don't the echo becoming a dumping ground for ads to other places. I hope you can understand that. As to your question, I'll answer in conceptual terms as best as I can. You need to contact the admins of your chosen server and request that they arrange to have the following whenever an email for a specified address is received: 1. Move the email to a specified location accessible to your web account. 2. Execute some sort of object you create. This object can be a program, script, etc which determines if the email applies to your game (probably by the subject field) and then: * Format a copy of the email as a web page and add it to your web. * Forward the email to your mailing list. Yes, it is that easy in theory. Yet, you are correct in thinking no sane operator of a public server will want to cooperate. Item 2 alone is enough of a show-stopper because of the leaps of faith required. Even omitting Conch (which has the "hooks" for doing both items built into its gating software), there are still many facilities that can accommodate you. Good grief, you're at Cornell, one of the most liberal joints in the world! If you can't find an unsuspecting web server, a sympathetic admin, and scores of eager young programmer-wannabes there, you're in dire straits!:) Of course I'm really telling you to automate your site even if you never forward a single post to this echo. Otherwise, we all know what will happen when next semester hits its stride. Universities tend to bury *most* students in work about the same time. I'm sorry if this isn't what you wanted to read, but cutting extra slack for na#ve young GMs has grown old over the years. :/ -----Original Message----- From: scott@conchbbs.com [mailto:scott@conchbbs.com] On Behalf Of Yune Kyung Lee Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 4:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of AD&D MAILING LIST Subject: RE: Shazrad]corrections I was never trying to apply that those who couldn't--or wouldn't (?!)--subscribe to the list were of a "lesser class". My reasons for such an injunction *were*, in fact, technical. Help me out here, Scott--how would I manage this? I honestly juggled the idea around in my head, but remember what few computer skills I might possess aren't equal to the task. I can set up a forwarding address that will be a subscriber to the Shazrad mailing list, and will automatically forward all posts to the echo. No problem. But the other way around...? Let's say I do set up a forwarding address that's subscribed to the AD&D list, and will filter messages only with subjects headed with "Shazrad]" on to the Shazrad email list. That means that anything sent to the email list will be sent to the echo will be sent to the email list and so on in a nasty loop. Am I overlooking something? If so, then please let me know. I'm not sure what control of the *website* has to do with this; I might be able to cajole the owner to set up something, if only I knew what. I hope you see that this was a decision based on giving the maximum number of people access to the game, even if it was a one-way access, rather than trying to keep people out. --Yune -- |Fidonet: liyet@bigfoot.com |Internet: scott@conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. -- |Fidonet: royall@hal-pc.org |Internet: scott@conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. --- # Origin: (1:106/357.99) * Origin: ConchGate (1:106/357.0) .