[Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

[Dan Mick]

Thomas Roessler wrote:
> 
> On 2001-02-06 14:18:02 -0800, 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.
> 
> So what?  I'm not talking about the basic concept, but about the
> user interface and actions needed to accomplish a certain effect.
> 
> There's no reason (maybe with the exception of feasibility ;-) why
> this unsubscribe/resubscribe action shouldn't be hidden behind a
> simple user interface, which could - at the same time - (1) preserve
> all the user's settings, and (2) could even give users an option to
> automatically perform this operation for all lists under this
> mailman instance's control.

Yes, that's inarguable.  You could also make it so that the mailing
list software wipes the user's butt for them; it's only a matter of
hardware and the right testing procedure.

IMO, there are more-pressing problems, but obviously opinions differ.