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<P><FONT SIZE=2>for a customer of ours we wrote a small application (in vbscript/ asp, as the customer is on an NT-box for now) to present the user with a subscription-form (asking for e-mail-address and some personal data) of our own (so we by-pass the mailman subscription interface entirely).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>all input is stored in a database (for crm-purposes) and the e-mail-address is added to a simple text-file (maillistname_add or maillistname_remove) which is on a samba-share on the linux-server on which mailman resides (but you could just as well ftp those files over between the two servers on a regular basis). </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>the text-file is processed by a (cronned) shellscript that uses the add_members and remove_members mailman-commands to perform the actual subscription.. i'm sure there are easier ways, but this proved to be very flexible and extensible, without us having to change mailman's code.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>(we previously even had the asp repost the e-mail-address to one of the pages inside the mailman administrative interface, but that did not prove to flexible .. ;-)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>good luck!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>frank</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: G.W. van Mourik [<A HREF="mailto:g.w.vanmourik@student.utwente.nl">mailto:g.w.vanmourik@student.utwente.nl</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: maandag 17 september 2001 16:27</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: mailman-users@python.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: [Mailman-Users] subscribe box without password?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Hi there,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Thanks for the great Mailman program. I intend to use it at </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> as a announce list </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> on a website. What I want is that people fill in their e-mail </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> address in a box that </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> is integrated in the site and just have to press a button. Is </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> it possible to get </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> around the two "enter your password" boxes? If so, would </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> somebody be so </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> kind to tell me? Thanks a lot!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> cheers,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> GW</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ------------------------------------------------------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> <A HREF="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users" TARGET="_blank">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
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