Re: Profiles (WAS: Re: Conlang-to-body-shape connections)

Peter Clark wrote, 2003.04.14 10:13'jä:
>On Monday 14 April 2003 09:10 am, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > I think it could be very easy to set up an automatic system to get this
> > list daily and process it in the database, and use the e-mail address as a
> > way to check whether the person is on the Conlang list or not at
> > subscription (NOMAIL people are listed too). So putting the email address
> > would be mandatory (with the possibility of hiding it from the rest of the
> > world of course).
>         Problem: free.fr has disabled mail routines within PHP (last I
> checked, at
>any rate--I doubt they've changed their policy), so that it cannot be used
>for spam relays. This would mean that there wouldn't be a way to check
>mailing list subscribers, at least in the way you propose. Maybe Vaksje has
>an idea?
Someone could sacrifice a *NIX machine (anyone?) connected to the net,
which should have the power to REVIEW the list at any given time with
crontab (every 30 minutes or so). That machine could simply upload the
review list of members to free.fr (or elsewhere), for the PHP script to
use. I think that should work.

>         :Peter
>--
>Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
vaksje.
http://www.claygirl.org:8080/~vaxje/
(unfortunately does not yet contain conlang stuff ;)

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