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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Bear Kaufmann wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I tried implementing the MailPosts feature. I need to use an email 
> address for the "from" on the messages, I believe this list doesn't 
> allow non-subscribed people to post to the list, so messages from the 
> script will get bounced.

I tried this in the past and encountered an endless loop, ibiblio admins 
hadto terminate the process after a seemingly infinitude of iterations, 
all unbeknownst to me (innocent bystander).

> I used "wiki@permaculture.info" as the address. Perhaps Lawrence could 
> add it to the list.


I'll do this right now.

> Something I ran across which didn't make it into the email was 
> http://www.state-machine.com
> It tracks the influence of campaign contributions to Senators. Each 
> type of contribution (3 of them) attracts the nodes (Senators) to 
> itself in proportion to the amount of money the Senator raised from 
> that source. You are free to move the attractors around. So you can 
> sort out objects based on multiple variables on a 2d surface. This is 
> along the lines of what I'm thinking of for the RichClient (looking 
> for a better name) search feature.
>
> I'm inclined to make the RichClient a sub-project here. I think we may 
> first really want to work on an good HTML based implementation, and 
> once that's respectable looking, move on to implementing the RichClient.
What is RichClient all about?

> Also, when I get well tagged output to work with, what kind of look 
> would you all like for the search results and plant listing? Any 
> websites to reference for design ideas?