[Mailman-Users] Help

Lewis Lau WTLEWIS at cityu.edu.hk
Tue May 14 06:06:34 CEST 2002


Just a suggestion. How about hack the CookHeaders.py a bit, remark the line 
"List-Post" and remain the lines "List-Subscribe" and "List-Unsubscribe" 
unchanged?
This will only remove the "List-Post" information from the mail header.

Lewis

At 11:35 PM 5/13/02 -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote:
>         With Majordomo there IS nothing to maintain!  That was the point 
> I was trying to make.  I do understand that it is a case of different 
> strokes for different folks.  I have no problem with that 
> what-so-ever.  MM is not at all designed for use as a news list.  It may 
> well work OK for a discussion list but as far as news list goes it is 
> horrid.  I am stuck with all these irrelevant headers that tell folks how 
> to post, etc when in all reality they CANT post.  So now people start 
> sending to the list because the list tells them to and I start getting 
> tons of bounced mail.  Now I cant turn off the mail bouncing thing, I am 
> FORCED to go manually delete each mail.  Oh yeah I can hack the code to 
> make it so that the bounces go away but then people cant subscribe.  What 
> good is a list where people cant subscribe.  So it is a vicious 
> circle.  I do things the way the programmers want them to be done and 
> thats all there is to it.  It is very frustrating to see software that is 
> so close to being excellent but because of a few minor issues is almost 
> unusable.  I am sure you follow what I am saying here.
>
>At 11:15 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >we switched from majordomo and our listowners and thier lists
> >have both commented how much easier it is to do administration
> >and they feel the interface is user friendly.
> >
> >it would be nice if there was a way to set an option to
> >"assume" reject as a default for posts to closed lists
> >from non-members without also throwing out subscription
> >requests. Perhaps something in the future for 2.1?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Fuz
> >
> >
> >
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