Alessandro Vesely writes:
Camera-ready is cleaner than anything I have heard till now.
Clean, maybe, but Mark explained why the scheme is fragile even if you can get participation. The killer problem is personalization, but the other problems are also intractable. Serial numbers in the Subject is a case where the variable content is not predictable by the author or originating system.
Probably it is not workable, but I cannot understand why. It works well in several publishing environments, typically journals, which distribute templates to authors. Why can't it work for mailing lists?
It can, it just depends on high participation rates to be useful. As I pointed out, if you can get that participation, you don't need any changes to Mailman, you just don't add footers to the body or list tags to the Subject.
So why don't you try the experiment on some of your lists and see how much participation you get?