You da man, Jon!!
-- Gary Hedlin President Hedlin Web Designs http://www.hedlin.net <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message news:bdja50$833$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > > > Well, I wasn't sure that it could be done, but I do enjoy a challenge! > ;-) I spent some time the past several nights researching and then > implementing a way to interact with the DML (read & post messages) via the web. > I am posting this message via the web, in fact. :-) > > This implementation changes absolutely nothing about the current e-mail or > newsgroup versions of the list, while adding the capability to read and post > via the web. Essentially, its a web based newsreader, which interacts with > the newsgroup version of the list. I had some trouble finding web based > newsreaders that would work for us, but I did finally find one that I figured > would suffice (after some modification). It doesn't really do threading > per-se, but then again neither does a web forum... It does seem to do a good > job of keeping all the replies to a thread in the same place when you sort by > subject though. You can also sort by author or date. (it is *somewhat* > similar to reading the DML via the archives except that it remembers which > posts you have already read and hides them by default, and allows you to post > messages and replies to the list.) Anyway, I was able to put the system > together using freely available, open source software combined with a few > scratch built utilities. > > In order to access this web version of the DML (which I am calling the > Web-News Gateway for lack of a better name), you must log in with a usercode > and password. The usercode you log in with is actually your e-mail address. > There is a separate utility, which I am calling the DML Web-News Gateway > Registration System, which you must use to set up an account. Once you have > set up an account and chosen a password, you can access the Web-News gateway. > You can use this registration system to change your password to whatever you > want at any time, and there is a feature to e-mail your password to you in case > you forget it. > > The link to access the Web-News gateway and the link to the registration > system to set up a password can both be found on the DML home page at > http://www.dakota-truck.net > > For those of us used to threaded news clients, this web version is a bit > cumbersome, but for anyone who wants to be able to read and post via the web, > it is certainly better than nothing. :-) If nothing else, it may be useful > for folks away from home who can now interact with the DML using nothing more > than a web browser. > > Oh, BTW, when you sign in for the first time, you will automatically be > subscribed to the DML and DML Offtopic groups. The gen2dakota and dakotart408 > groups are also available, and you can subscribe to them and interact with them > as well if you so choose. Also, when you first sign in, the DML group will > contain somewhere around 2000 messages or so. You have probably read most (or > all) of them already, so you might want to click on the "catchup" button which > will mark them all read and hide them. Then, new posts will start to show up. > > > If anyone has any questions, problems, suggestions etc. please feel free to > e-mail or post here on the DML and I'll help however I can. > > Enjoy! > > -- > > -Jon- > > .---- Jon Steiger ------ jon@dakota-truck.net or jon@jonsteiger.com ------. > | I'm the: AOPA, DoD, EAA, NMA, NRA, SPA, USUA. Rec & UL Pilot - SEL | > | 70 Cuda, 90 Dak 'vert, 92 Ram 4x4, 96 Dak, 96 Intruder 1400, 96 FireFly | > `------------------------------------------ http://www.jonsteiger.com ----'
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