[Techtalk] Attachment stripping and storing for Mailman

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 09:37:15AM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> This is a particular case. The mailing lists are for family members,
> which means they almost always want to exchange photos rather than say,
> Word documents with a bit of text. It also happens to mean that many of
> them have limited desktop skills: they know email, they know typing,
> they know how to get pictures off their camera. Training them in the
> "sign up for webspace, upload pictures to webspace, work out what URL of
> picture is once uploaded, send URL" sequence is not trivial, even with
> specialist photo services like Flickr. It's also not easy to explain to
> them why someone might want to go through the "click on mysterious code,
> second program opens up to show picture" process rather than the "open
> email... there's my picture!" process.[1]

Would setting up a Wiki help?  I know with PmWiki[1] it is relatively
easy to upload pictures and have them display (and it isn't cryptic like
Flickr).

> The concept of a URL is actually quite sophisticated: you upload
> pictures to a certain place using some process, and then they
> mysteriously show up with a string of characters that bears some
> resemblance, but not a predictable one (especially not with things like
> Flickr), to the upload process.
> 
> I'd really like to go through the minimum amount of user training
> necessary for this.

I guess you're saying that *anything* with a learning curve is just not
feasible, yes?

[1] http://www.pmwiki.org

Kathryn Andersen
-- 
 _--_|\     | Kathryn Andersen	<http://www.katspace.com>
/      \    | 
\_.--.*/    | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/>
      v     | 
------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere
Maranatha!  |	-> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe