[Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Dan Mick wrote:
> Explain to these users that there is no "identity" they have on the mailing
> list except their subscription name; "danmick at yahoo.com" is a completely different
> person than "dmick at west.sun.com" as far as the software is concerned.  So there
> really is no difference at all between unsubscribe/resubscribe and "change",
> nor can there be.

Not from an underlying data perspective.  But from an interaction
perspective, the user expects to be able to enter a new address, and have
the UI:
- capture all of their settings
- subscribe the new address with those settings
- if successful, unsubscribe the old address
...as one operation.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                          rogerk at QueerNet.ORG
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