Re: [Mailman-Developers] no passord on subscription page ... and others

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

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"F" == Fil <fil@bok.net> writes:

F> it seems to me that to request a password from the subscribing
F> page is confusing, overkill, and useless... when you can
F> generate the password on the fly for the user. So the patch
F> would be in Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py

I'd rather make the password field optional, and generate a password for them if it's missing. In this case, you'd have to force a welcome message so that the user will receive the password.

Yes this would be great

F> Secondly: is it possible that the mail-command analyzer catches
F> messages sent to the list-on@server and list-off@server
F> addresses and processes them as subscribe/unsubscribe commands
F> ?  This would emulate the LetterRip behaviour
F> (www.fogcity.com), which is quite nice in this respect.

This probably wouldn't be hard to add, although I like list-add@ and list-remove@ or some such.

Fine with me ;)