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Originally Posted by lierduh

So the benefit only comes down to that particular user's username is used instead of a 'Guest post' in the forums? (oh, also the post count is boosted by one?).

Mainly it allows you to search by username. For example, show me all posts by Capt. Kirk with Klingon in the title. I use this type of search all the time when I remember who posted the thread and the subject, but I can't seem to find it by a general search. I also use the "find all posts by this user" quite often.

Originally Posted by lierduh

When a list member (who is also your forum member) posts to the list by sending an email, he or she will receive all the messages in the email. A filter would need to be activated in his/her email clients to get rid of all the messages coming from the mailing list.

Well, I would suspect that those who choose to participate via the forum would no long use the email list since it would be redundant.

When I originally was looking at forum software there was one product (I forget which one) that allowed users to particpate via the forum or via email. So, if someone posted a message on the forum they would receive an email that they could then respond to. That response would then show up back in the forum. Neither one would even be aware the other wasn't posting messages in the same way. This allows the best of both worlds, those who want to particpate via the forum can and those who choose to only particpate via the mailing list can also do so. The hard part is making it transparant to the user. When I think how it would work I guess that's what I'm shooting for Those who are happy to post via email could continue to do so and those who want to view and post messages on the forum could choose that option. The end result is that both groups are happy and both groups have increased exposure.

Originally Posted by lierduh

I guess what you want to set up is (let me know if it is not):

* Let only handful of forum members to post in the mailing list forum, perhaps by setting forum permission.

Yes. The way I would set it up would be to deny everyone posting privlages to that forum, and then I would create a usergroup with posting privlages, and anyone that was a member of the listgroup who requested it, I would move them to that usergroup.

Originally Posted by lierduh

* They need to subscribe to the list using the same email address as the email address they use for the forums

I think so although I'm not sure. My *guess* would be that for it to work, my email address would first be accepted, and then the listbot would look at the From field in the header (or maybe the reply to email address?) and then use that to show who the message is from.

I am likely the only one here who is interested in this function , so I don't want to take up too much of your time making something that I'm likely the only one to use. I was just hoping it might be somthing quick and simple, like unscrambling the outoing email address and perhaps inserting the posters name into the "From" field. Regardless, I am very happy with how it works now and I appreciate the work you have done on the hack