Re: [Mailman-Developers] Towards 2.1
barry@digicool.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
- Plain text digests should conform to RFC 1153.
Yes please. Gnus supports 1153 digests, but doesn't recognize Mailman digests unless I switch to MIME format.
- Allow "urgent" postings to all members by the list admin which bypasses normal digest delivery.
I would like to be able to do this as more than just list admin. I've got at least three different lists on my system that have an announce, regular and digest options. The announce has separate subscribers and also goes immediately to all regular and digest subscribers. Currently those lists are still running under Majordomo, as I have no idea how to make them do the same thing with Mailman.
And in the case of one of the lists it's not even an announce list, just a "regular" address that anyone can post to for topically urgent items.
- Allow the user to be excluded from postings if they're getting them in the to: or cc: headers. Be smarter about filtering out duplicate deliveries.
This would be an interesting option, but I don't think I'd turn it on for most lists.
- Don't use the first public mailing list as the `originator' of password reminders.
Very much yes please. :)
- Provide an email interface to all administrative commands
Ditto.
- For email subscribes, keep an audit of where requests are coming from, and send the original request headers in the confirmation message. Helps track down subscribe bombs.
That sounds like a good idea. I've always liked mlms that do this.
- Support the `which' command.
I had a user asking how to do this just yesterday. :)
Brian.
At 6:20 AM -0800 11/26/00, Brian Edmonds wrote:
barry@digicool.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
- Plain text digests should conform to RFC 1153.
Yes please. Gnus supports 1153 digests, but doesn't recognize Mailman digests unless I switch to MIME format.
which -- if you're munging digests -- you should anyway, since that's a big reaso FOR MIME digest format. Tehy're designed to be parseable. But that doesn't ignore that digests need to be tweaked, but if you're doing stuff to digests (like bursting), you should use MIME digests any time tehy're available.
I would like to be able to do this as more than just list admin. I've got at least three different lists on my system that have an announce, regular and digest options. The announce has separate subscribers and also goes immediately to all regular and digest subscribers. Currently those lists are still running under Majordomo, as I have no idea how to make them do the same thing with Mailman.
The "easy" answer is to disable digests for announce lists. Since they tend to be very low volume anyway, digest versions are generally pretty useless.
And in the case of one of the lists it's not even an announce list, just a "regular" address that anyone can post to for topically urgent items.
ditto here. It's pretty useless to read a digest of topical/timely items, because the concept of digests is to hold it for later. Defeats teh purpose, so turn them off.
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