[Mailman-Users] Read-Only Mailing Lists

[Bob Weissman]

This is eminently doable, but you have to be willing and able to patch Mailman.

1. Patch Mailman to be able to turn off the List-* headers on a per-list basis so you don't confuse your subscribers with instructions that don't work. I can send this patch to anyone who wants it. I haven't figured out how to contribute it to SourceForge.

2. Edit listinfo.html for each list you want to have non-standard instructions on its listinfo page.

3. Restrict posting by setting "member_posting_only" to "no" and "posters" to the address(es) of people allowed to post. These are both on the "privacy" admin page.

That's it. If you would spend half the amount of time learning Python and HTML as you do complaining, you would have figured all of this out by now. And I was an Aerosmith fan before you were. They played at a giant beer bash at my college circa 1973 (they had one album out). Dozens of kegs and "cups" the size of large popcorn vats at the movies. People were passed out everywhere. It was a good time.

- Bob

At 05:15 PM 5/21/02, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote:
>LOTS OF LUCK!   I asked how to do this and only got rude answers that said I am trying to force the software to do things it was not intended to do.  If you figure it out let me know.  BTW the actual restricting of posts to just you is the easy part.  The numerous referneces to web pages, posting instructions, etc that do not apply to a news list will be a PITA.
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>At 07:37 PM 5/20/2002 -0700, Benjamin Young wrote:
>>Hi all,
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>>I am new to Mailman and have searched the archives without finding a solution to my problem but could not find an answer. I would like to create a list where only the admin has permission to post (e.g. an announcements list).
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>>I could find no way to do this but this is OK if there is a way to customize the welcome and help messages. I already customized the List-specific text prepended to new-subscriber welcome message but this only adds the message to the beginning of the pre-written message. I could not find any folders related to the list software in my site's files but can I modify the entire welcome message for each of my lists?
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>>Thanks!
>>Benjamin