[Mailman-Users] footers and members of the list

[Mark Sapiro]

Hal Huntley wrote:

>We have a request from a list administrator asking if he can have the all
>the members of the list listed in the footer of the message. This list is
>under Mailman 2.1.9.
>
>This isn't a "personalization" listing with just the name of the member
>subscribing. He wants all the messages going out to have all the list
>members in the footer.
>
>Is there a variable that can handle that? Or must the list maintainer just
>add the names by hand?  He may be content with just names or email
>addresses.


No, there is no variable that can handle that, but one could easily put
a link to the list's roster page in the footer which I think would be
much better than putting everyone's address in which raises serious
privacy concerns should such a message be forwarded off list.

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