[Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

[Camel - Jay S. Curtis]

And... I would hope the upgrade is re-designed to be as easy as the CVS 
(patch) upgrade(s) from 2.0.6 >> 2.0.8

On Wednesday 28 November 2001 10:19 am, you wrote:
> Dare I ask what the time-frame for Mailman 2.1 is?  And can I add the
> names to my existing list, or do people need to resubscribe?  (I hope
> it's add because I'm just now populating a list with potentially 250
> subscribers).
>
> Jason
>
> > On 28 November 2001, marina said:
> > > Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman
>
> (and
>
> > > it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that
> > > collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and
>
> that
>
> > > CGI will then email Mailman to start the subscription. The other
> > > information I guess we can store in MySQL or similar.
> > >
> > > Do you think anybody else would be interested in this? If you think
> > > they might be, we'd be happy to post this to the Mailman site.
> >
> > Considering that Mailman 2.1 has the ability to track real names, your
> > hack probably won't be needed in the long term.
> >
> >         Greg