[Mailman-Developers] Mailman-Developers list's welcome mailformatting errors

[Mark Sapiro]

Gabor FUNK wrote:
>
>Just subscribed.
>I take this broken recently or noone read or cared to report that this 
>list's welcome mail have some "problems".
>
>Header says, it is:
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>[so it is not my mailer broken]
>
>but body contains "&lt;"-s instead of "<"-s.
>">"-s seems to be ok.


Thank you for your report. This was an artifact of an old HTML
sanitizing method used to protect the web interface from XSS attacks.

I have corrected that portion of the welcome message and also updated
some other old information. The new list specific portion of the
welcome is now as follows:


Welcome to the Mailman-Developers at python.org mailing list! This list
is for discussion of the Mailman mailing list management system.  It
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