[Mailman-Users] Nomail members

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Fri Mar 9 18:18:58 CET 2007


Quoting Mark Sapiro (msapiro at value.net):
> But, for those for whom they are useful, here's a possibility. This is
> not a promise, but rather a suggestion. I first saw it it a comment by
> Glen Seib on the wiki <http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Mailman+2.2>.
> 
> The suggestion (with interpretation by me) is that the list owner could
> provide a text template with substitutable parameters such as list
> name, user email, user options url, etc. as a list attribute. This
> could be used to remind users of list procedures and policies, how to
> get a password reset, whatever you want. It would be sent periodically
> to all list members. It would not be a list post, so it wouldn't be
> archived, and it would be personalized even if the list normally
> wasn't.
> 
> To bring this thread back around to its beginning, there could also be
> a mechanism to treat a bounce of this message differently from a
> bounce of a post or digest.

That would be awesome.  That would be everything I've ever wanted in a
monthly reminder.  I assume it would be VERPed the way existing monthly
reminders can be, right?

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Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> http://blog.xcski.com/
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