[Mailman-Users] Use of " in footer

[John Fleming]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
To: "John Fleming" <john at wa9als.com>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of " in footer


> John Fleming wrote:
>
>>Uh, sorry for the simple question (but it will be easy to answer).  In
>>non-digest mode, footer option - How do I get a doublequote to appear
>>instead of &quote?  Like if I wanted it to read "This is a test."
>
> The escaping of certain characters >, <, & and " entered on the admin
> web pages is a result of "cleansing" to prevent XSS attacks. This
> means if you want to put these things in msg_footer or whatever, you
> have to use bin/config_list (or withlist) to do it.
>
> e.g.
>
> bin/config_list -i filename listname
>
> where filename contains for example
>
> msg_footer="""
> a line with "quoted" word
> some other stuff
> """

Thanks, Mark.  So if I make filename containing:

msg_footer="""
This is a "test".
some other stuff
"""

and then run bin/config_list -i filename listname,
what exactly would I get?  IOW, do the lines above REPLACE the default I see 
in the web interface or ADD TO it?  tnx



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