[Mailman-Developers] 2.1.8 documentation mismatch

[Mark Sapiro]

David Lee wrote:
>
>Whilst guiding a potential list-owner through the approval/moderation
>procedure, I spotted an inconsistency.  A typical "http://.../admindb/..."
>page ("Administrative requests for mailing list: ...") has a four way
>radio button, with one being labelled "Accept".  But its "More detailed
>instructions" link to "Detailed instructions for the administrative
>database" then has this button described under the label "Approve".
>
>This mixture of terminology seems to occur in other places also. You might
>want to consider rationalising these to the same thing for the sake of
>moderators who might be (say) secretarial staff.

Thanks for the report. I will update the template as follows unless you
have a better suggestion:

Index: admindbdetails.html
===================================================================
--- admindbdetails.html	(revision 7905)
+++ admindbdetails.html	(working copy)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     postings, you can still forward or preserve the message (see
     below).
 
-<li><b>Approve</b> -- Approve the message, sending it on to the list.
+<li><b>Accept/Approve</b> -- Accept the message, sending it on to the
list.
     For membership requests, approve the change in membership status.
 
 <li><b>Reject</b> -- Reject the message, sending a rejection notice to


Since it is a template, you can fix your own and store the fixed
version in templates/site/en/admindbdetails.html where it will survive
updates (the base is templates/en/admindbdetails.html). See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.048.htp>.

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