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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:37:39 0
Subject: Re: newsgroup (again) - A Solution?
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> PH> Then anyone can read the mailing list without subscribing, and
> PH> the WWW site can contain a form for sending mail to the list. This
> PH> would also allow us to perform the rather neat trick netscape does
> PH> for news and make any URL in the mail messages into a
> PH> hypertext link.
>
> Netscape isn't available on amiga, so that would leave a lot of us
> stuck (inc. me) :(
>
Firstly, Netscape would not be required - any browser that supports
forms e.g. Amiga Mosaic 2.0 will be OK. My comment on netscape
was that if you read news in it, it turns any URL's into links. For
this system, the URL's would be turned into links at the server so
would appear that way on any browser.

Secondly, this proposal won't affect the current mailing list - it
would still operate as it does now. The WWW system will provide a
method for reading all the messages on the list without subscribing
to it, and for posting messages from a WWW form.

It is also possible to setup a login system to the site that goes
like this:

 - On your first visit, you fill in a form giving you name, E-Mail
   address and mail signature, you are then returned a private URL
   for the actual list which contains a pointer to the information
   you just entered.

 - You add this URL to your hotlist, and on subsequent visits you
   get straight to the actual list without having to re-enter the
   user information.

 - When you go to the form to post the message, it can automatically
   insert your name, reply-to E-Mail address and signature into the
   message.

See the Electronic Telegraph (An on-line version of a UK newspaper)
for an example of this technique:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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