[Mailman-Users] public listname case? + system pass?

[Bob Weissman]

At 01:53 AM 9/2/02, Richard Barrett wrote:
>At 02:17 02/09/2002 -0400, Fuzzy wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Bob Weissman wrote:
>>
>>> >* Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie> [20020901 01:20]: wrote:
>>> >> 1) when i create a new list with 'newlist -q mylist paul at paul.com mypass'
>>> >>    it creates the list fine, but it always changes the case of the
>>> >>    listname to uppercase. ie "mylist" becomes "Mylist".
>>>
>>> Edit Mailman/MailList.py, changing the lines
>>>         self.real_name = '%s%s' % (string.upper(self._internal_name[0]),
>>>                                    self._internal_name[1:])
>>> to
>>>         self.real_name = self._internal_name
>>>
>>> - Bob
>>
>>
>>would this do the same for mm 2.1b3?
>>
>>--- Mailman/MailList.py.orig    Mon Sep  2 01:42:15 2002
>>+++ Mailman/MailList.py Mon Sep  2 02:14:47 2002
>>@@ -297,8 +297,7 @@
>>         self.bounce_matching_headers = \
>>                 mm_cfg.DEFAULT_BOUNCE_MATCHING_HEADERS
>>         self.anonymous_list = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_ANONYMOUS_LIST
>>-        internalname = self.internal_name()
>>-        self.real_name = internalname[0].upper() + internalname[1:]
>>+        self.real_name = self.internal_name()
>>         self.description = ''
>>         self.info = ''
>>         self.welcome_msg = ''
>
>A simpler way is to just change the first (real_name) and fourth (MM 2.0.x) or sixth (MM 2.1b3) (subject_prefix) fields on the web admin GUI General Options page for the list.

Simpler? Not in the case where the Mailman administrator wants all lists forever after to not have their first characters uppercased. Changing the code once accomplishes this once and for all.

- Bob