[Mailman-Users] feature request

Steven Jones Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz
Mon Dec 7 16:54:13 EST 2015


Hi,

It is an emergency mailing list that only gets used in a major emergency,  19000 subscribers.  We dont really care who subscribes but we dont want "important" ppl un-subscribing and then complaining they didnt get teh emergency email down the track.



regards

Steven 
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From: Mailman-Users <mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac.nz at python.org> on behalf of Keith Bierman <khbkhb at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2015 10:47 a.m.
To: Mark Sapiro
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request

Probably betrays my ignorance of the OP's needs, but I'd have thought:

1) tracking who joins is more interesting than those leaving
2) client side filtering (including automated discarding) allows the
administrators to save their sanity ...

So I find the described request slightly surprising. Kudos to Mark for not
pushing back on this basis ... but perhaps the OP can provide a little more
context for why this would be a generally GoodThing.

Keith Bierman
khbkhb at gmail.com
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303 997 2749

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 12/06/2015 06:06 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> > "Should administrator get notices of subscribes and unsubscribes? "
> >
> >
> > Would it be possible to split these as our list admins would like to see
> unsubscribes but not subscribes.
>
>
> There are no plans to implement such a split in official MM 2.1
> releases, but if you wanted to implement it, it could be simple
> depending on what you wanted to do.
>
> I.e. if you just wanted to modify the code so that admin_notify_mchanges
> meant "unsubscribes only", you could just find the two lines
>
>         if admin_notif is None:
>             admin_notif = self.admin_notify_mchanges
>
> about 20 lines below the start of the definition of ApprovedAddMember in
> Mailman/MailList.py and delete them.
>
> Actually splitting the switches into admin_notify_subscribes and
> admin_notify_unsubscribes is more complicated and involves changes to
> multiple modules.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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