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While this is being discussed, my thoughts, which are worth not much. As discussed on IRC but most of y'all ain't there. New content. At present, you cannot register on the website. I understand the reasoning (bots, spam) but I disagree with them. There are more elegant ways to deal with scripted attacks. Worse, there doesn't appear to be any information on how to register, who to ask or what access or benefits doing so would bring. There are also no guides to posting new content or similar. This undoubtedly puts people off (it does me) so content creation is restricted to those "in the know". A boys' club, elitest, potentially viewable as unfriendly as well as puts undue strain on a few. Not good. Possible solutions: 1. Allow free registrations and give editor rights immediately. This would not be good. 2. Allow free registration but in the creation email, make it clear what the next step would bring, what sort of thing they should create, how they are expected to behave, that they're members of the mailing list (if required) etc - and who to ask for edit access should they need it. And who else to ask if the first one doesn't respond. 3. Tie website login into email address and their mailman password. Daily purges so anyone who unsubs from the list is removed from the website. Probably doable but might be more work than anyone wants to give, depending on how mailman stores its passwords. 4. Leave it as it is. (Hiss!) 5. Something else. Already proposed are some arcane git based backend (even as a programmer myself, I would find this unneccessarily complicated and another system to learn for what should be a basic and easy process), a change of cms, html and probably somebody's thinking about carving bits of stone and scanning them in. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq