[Mailman-Developers] one more personalization thought.

[Chuq Von Rospach]

I had this thought tonight. Almost hate to suggest new features, barry, 
but...

Since not everyone is going to personalize every message, but may well 
turn on verping/personalization for ever "N" messages (that feature is 
in there, right? I remember seeing it, I think, and I know we talked 
about it.... Sigh, I really ought to look atht ehsource, but it's in my 
other computer right now...) -- I was thinking it might be nice to be 
able to create headers and footers that take advantage of 
personalization but don't leave stuff around when it's not turned on.

my current footer is:

_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
%(real_name)s mailing list      (%(real_name)s@%(host_name)s)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
%(user_optionsurl)s

This email sent to %(user_address)s

if I turn off personalization, a number of those things don't work. 
That really seems to limit the ability ot personalize part-time, which 
I expect a lot of users are going to want to do as a tradeoff on 
overhaead issues. So how about:

%(if_personalized)

_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
%(real_name)s mailing list      (%(real_name)s@%(host_name)s)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
%(user_optionsurl)s

This email sent to %(user_address)s
%(endif)
%(if_not_personalized)
generic footer
%(endif)

As I remember, some of your HTML also has something similar -- the 
listinfo pages do some kind of "if digests are turned on, show this", 
don't they? this is, I think, an extension of that...

anyway, just putting it forward to chew on....




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