Hi mailman developers,
it seems to me that to request a password from the subscribing page is confusing, overkill, and useless... when you can generate the password on the fly for the user. So the patch would be in Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> if not form.has_key("pw") or not form.has_key("pw-conf"): #################################### patch fil@bok.net 27/11/1999 pw = Utils.MakeRandomPassword() pwc = pw # error = 1 # results = (results # + "You must supply a valid password, and confirm it.<br>") <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
and one would have to modify the standard HTML template too. But maybe this could be toggled from the list-admin page ?
Secondly: is it possible that the mail-command analyzer catches messages sent to the list-on@server and list-off@server addresses and processes them as subscribe/unsubscribe commands ? This would emulate the LetterRip behaviour (www.fogcity.com), which is quite nice in this respect.
Thirdly: I'd like people to be unsubscribed w/o their password. Some users tend to be annoying when then want to leave.
Fourthly: I'm trying to see how to add a user-name field in the subscribers database... seems alot of work. Is this a planned feature ?
Well, that's all for now; keep on the good work!