[Mailman-Users] changing request of subscription result page

[John W Baxter]

At 21:02 +0100 2/13/2002, Solignani Tiziano wrote:
>"Confirmation from your email address is required, to prevent anyone from
>subscribing you without permission. Instructions are being sent to you at
>tiziolonne at libero.it. Please note your subscription will not start until you
>confirm your subscription. "
>
>I went to etc/mailman, saw the templates but it seems that text is provided
>by a variable.
>
>Do you know where I can change it?
>
>This is English and confuses some users of mine...

The confirmation process confuses a significant number of
English-as-a-first-language people as well.

Not so much the above from the web page, but the message which requests
confirmation, which has both a subject and a beginning of the body which
can easily be read to mean "this is a confirmation of your subscription".
[If one reads the whole message, there's no confusion, but it's really
rather too easy to read a little and think..."Oh good, I've subscribed.
I'm done."]

We modified the email message for our purposes; I think things are improved
in Mailman 2.1.  You might want to subscribe to the "Playground" list at
http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/playground

Also note that Mailman 2.1 has had a lot of internationalization work done
on it.  It is coming soon.

Iscriviti a Playground completando il seguente modulo.
   Ti verrà inviato un messaggio con richiesta di conferma, per evitare che
terzi possano cancellarti senza il tuo consensoQuesta è una lista pubblica,
questo significa che la lista dei membri è aperta a chiunque (ma noi
oscuriamo gli indirizzi affinchè non siano facilmente identificabili dagli
spammers).

(I don't know whether the accented characters will make it through.)
  --John

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John Baxter   jwblist at olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA