[Mailman-Announce] RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 2

I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 2; see below for a list of changes since version 2.1 beta 1. There have been lots of bug fixes, Korean language support aded, and a couple of new features (a bit of a thaw in the feature freeze ;).

Remember that discussions about version 2.1 are preferred on mailman-developers. I plan on moving mailman-developers over to the new version tomorrow, and if that works well, the other mailman-* mailing lists at python.org too.

Enjoy, -Barry

2.1 beta 2 (05-May-2002)

Lots of bug fixing, and the following new features and changes:

- A "de-mime" content filter feature has been added.  This
  oft-requested feature allows you to specify MIME types that
  Mailman should strip off of any messages before they're posted
  to the list.  You can also optionally convert text/html to
  text/plain (by default, through lynx if it's available).

- Changes to the way the RFC 2919 and 2369 headers (i.e. the
  List-*: headers) are added:
      o List-Id: is always added
      o List-Post:, List-Help:, List-Subscribe:,
        List-Unsubscribe:, and List-Archive: are only added to
        posting messages.
      o X-List-Administrivia: is only added to messages Mailman
        creates and sends out of its own accord.

  Also, if the site administrator allows it, list owners can
  suppress the addition of all the List-*: headers.  List owners
  can also separately suppress the List-Post: header for
  announce-only lists.

- A new framework for email commands has been added.  This allows
  you to easily add, delete, or change the email commands that
  Mailman understands, on a per-site, per-list, or even per-user
  basis.

- Users can now change their digest delivery type from MIME to
  plain text globally, for all lists they are subscribed to.

- No language select pulldowns are shown if the list only supports
  one language.

- More mylist-admin eradication.

- Several performance improvements in the bounce qrunner, one of
  which is to make it run only once per minute instead of once per
  second.

- Korean language support as been added.

- Gatewaying from news -> mail uses its connections to the nntpd
  more efficiently.

- In bin/add_members, -n/--non-digest-members-file command line
  switch is deprecated in favor of -r/--regular-members-file.

- bin/sync_members grew a -g/--goodbye-msg switch.