On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 11:32 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
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The patch looks fine to me (it's against an earlier version but I can see how to hand-apply it in our version). I'm slightly concerned about sending a large volume of unwanted mail to this list (there were 21 edits today, although some of them were flagged trivial and didn't generate any mail).
Yeah, it can be a little noisy. That being a problem depends on the list in question; if it is, maybe a new list is the best approach.
My take on it is that the wiki becomes an extension of the list, in a way
- -- discussions on the wiki get "mirrored" to the list, and can fork off
into list-only chats. in my opinion it's very useful.
I do agree with the utility, and if folks here want to tie the list and the wiki together a little more that's OK by me (in fact I think it would be pretty good). It'll be noisy enough that I don't want to just impose it, though. At peak usage, say when a letter draft or similar is being finished, there can be dozens of (non-trivial) edits in a day, sustained over several days.
(sidebar - I'm only guessing at the use from the example - which has your email address as the target - but couldn't you just subscribe to "all pages+trivial edits" to get the same effect? Apologies if I've misunderstood what it does)
Unfortunately that doesn't protect against spam or malicious edits; an editor can "silence" those change messages. they can't silence these ones.
Indeed, that problem existed in all earlier versions of MoinMoin. The current version lets you tick a "subscribe to trivial changes" box in your user preferences. That removes the editors ability to suppress email alerts.
(PS - sorry about my last post entering hyphenspace there, I must be tired).