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Hi,
Sorry I'm responding late. We had presentations of master theses and I had to look after 3 out of 8 students for qualification. Moreover, 2 students are Chinese and difficulty in expressing themselves in Japanese. (Like myself in English :-( )
Adrian Bye wrote:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp
Yesterday I contributed patches which enables Mailman to have this exact functionality which we borrowed from Yahoo Groups. Yet I've seen no response from you yet, and only one half dismissive response from another mailman developer.
I looked through your code and my feeling is not integrating this patch in 2.1.6. The Decorate.py file was considerably patched in CVS by myself and it will take time to adjust the submitted 2.1.5 patch. Also, there are some functions copied from other sources not importing nor inheriting. And, if you write code for immediate integration in the CVS, you should read http://barry.warsaw.us/software/STYLEGUIDE.txt and PEP 8, or at least read the existing code and learn the style.
Mailman CAN be as good - and better - than Yahoo Groups. It doesn't have to take lots of money and resources. Just being willing to accept our code a piece at a time, and encouraging those who contribute will go a long way towards getting there.
There may be some disagreement on the unsubscribe styff, but the header/footer handling only benefits everyone. I certainly hope that the mailman team will be responsive, and accept these patches and integrate them into the codebase. From my side we'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Just tell us what we have to do.
I think the patch should be available in the SF tracker and tested by users who want the functionality. Number of unofficial patches are living like this. It took two years for my first patch (subject prefix numbering) to be integrated in the CVS. ;-)
-- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/