[plt-scheme] Re: Mailing list subscriptions

I hope you don't mind if I divert this discussion a little. Would you
happen to know how to compare the text of a given text box to a word?

Example:

I type hello into a text field and press go, the GUI opens a new
window and closes the current GUI window, but only if hello is typed
into the text field.

I have absolutely no clue on how to go about this seeing as simply
comparing text-contents a-text-field to a string does not work.

On Jan 10, 6:25 pm, Eli Barzilay <e... at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Jan 10, hend... at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:01:26PM -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> > > I, too, think that a bounce with brief, polite URL/info on how to
> > > subscribe is definitely the way to go.
>
> > You could treat the post as a request to subscribe.  There's usually
> > a confirmation required for a request to subscribe.  A
> > request-for-confirmation email is usually answered by replying.  A
> > reply that contains the original post could be interpreted as a post
> > as well as a confirmation.  That would require the
> > request-for-confirmation to contain a copy of the original post,
> > perhaps in the main body of the message, because attachments are
> > often deleted when an email program sends a reply.
>
> Well, doing that will still leave lots of problems -- for example, the
> current case where the OP used an address for posting but not for
> reading.  (Besides, I don't think that mailman has an option to invite
> people, only to subscribe them.)
>
> But I think that this goes in a good direction that I can implement:
> when I get a post from an unsubscribed address and authorize it, I can
> make my script just authorize it and send a message, and subscribe on
> a second post that gets authorized.  IOW, after a first post you get a
> reply explaining how to subscribe, and that unless you ask me, you
> will be subscribed if/when you post again.
>
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