[Mailman-Users] URL in List info text is suddenly "quoted" HTML

[Martin Maechler]

Hi,

>>>>> "Hilton" == Hilton J Ralphs <mailman-users at think.co.za>
>>>>>     on Wed,  5 May 2004 19:50:40 +0200 writes:

    Hilton> That's the problem, you "simply edited the list information bit".

Hilton, you misunderstood:N
I did what every list maintainer is supposed to do:

Goto  http://........./mailman/admin/<listname>/general ,
i.e. the "General Options" administrative page,
with its two-column setup of

  Description		  Value
  -----------             -----

with the many "boxes" on the right hand 'Value' side a list
maintainer fills in.  In this case we are talking about the one
simply called  'info' (the fifth from the top).
On its left side, it says

>> An introductory description - a few paragraphs - about the
>> list. It will be included, as html, at the top of the
>> listinfo page. Carriage returns will end a paragraph - see
>> the details for more info.  (Details for info)
			        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
				this is a link
and if click on the "Details for info" I get a page with URL
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/admin/ess-help/?VARHELP=general/info
				
with the content  starting as


>> 
>> ESS-help Mailing list Configuration Help
>> info Option

>> info (general): An introductory description - a few
>> paragraphs - about the list. It will be included, as html, at
>> the top of the listinfo page. Carriage returns will end a
>> paragraph - see the details for more info.
>> 

>> The text will be treated as html except that newlines will be
>> translated to <br> - so you can use links, preformatted text,
>> etc, but don't put in carriage returns except where you mean
>> to separate paragraphs. And review your changes - bad html
>> (like some unterminated HTML constructs) can prevent display
>> of the entire listinfo page.

Which clearly allows to put into HTML things.

And this used to work for many years -- as said I don't think
it's a mailman problem but a problem of the interaction of
web-server (apache) <-> mailman

When I put in HTML code, I __ of course __ don't use
the '&qout;' or '&lt;' entities that
become used on the ......../listinfo page !

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Yes, I know the following (and mentioned it by saying ".. are
quoted in the html source" below).
But I think you forgot that this HTML page is *generated* by
mailman/python from some "list database" (into which I haven't
looked).

    Hilton> This is what is on your page....

    Hilton> <br>For more info, see the &lt;A 
    Hilton> HREF=&quot;http://www.analytics.washington.edu/statcomp/projects/ess/&quot;&gt;
    Hilton> ESS site&lt;/A&gt;.
    Hilton> <br>

    Hilton> This is what it should read..... (in html)

    Hilton> <br>For more info, see the <A 
    Hilton> HREF="http://www.analytics.washington.edu/statcomp/projects/ess/">ESS site</A>.
    Hilton> <br>

    Hilton> -- 
    Hilton> Regards
    Hilton> Hilton


    Hilton> Quoting Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>:

    >> It's probably easiest to see what I mean when you look at
    >> 
    >> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
    >> 
    >> one of the lists I manage.
    >> The link "<A HREF=.... ............</A>" is suddenly `shown'
    >> 
    >> (because the "<" etc are quoted in the html source).
    >> 
    >> How can this happen? 
    >> As ML administrator, I've simply  edited the list information
    >> [text box] shown on the  ...../mailman/admin/ess-help page.