Just a suggestion that occurred to me, please note that I'm not subscribed to this list, so if you wish to reply to me you will have to do so at my address of stephanie@hawkbane.net. I LOVE Mailman, and its a wonderful program.
It would be helpful for some people (I hope not just me) if there was a way to associate a name or nickname with an email address. Some people keep lists for administrative reasons, and it is easier to find the person we are looking for by name (rather than email address).
While I'm at it, it appears that a person can unsubscribe from a list even if its set to confirm + approve. It would be nice if users could not unsubscribe themselves from these lists without approval also. Sometimes you need to ensure someone gets email from a list. Or maybe anothe roption added about needing confirmation to unsubscribe from administrator.
Anyhow, thanks for a wonderful program. May Majordomo rest in peace :).
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:24:19PM -0500, Stephanie Martinez wrote:
It would be helpful for some people (I hope not just me) if there was a way to associate a name or nickname with an email address. Some people keep lists for administrative reasons, and it is easier to find the person we are looking for by name (rather than email address).
Yes, that would be nice. While we're at it, we should add a list of aliases each person has, so when you set the list to 'members-only posting', you can accept mail from those aliases as well. And lots of other things ;) All of this requires a real user-database, though, which Mailman currently does not have. (Each subscriber is stored in the list object, independant of other lists. So if you subscribe to four lists on the same Mailman server, you would have to copy all the data to all four lists.) A user-database (as well as a 'better' database for the rest of Mailman) is one of the things high on the wishlist.
While I'm at it, it appears that a person can unsubscribe from a list even if its set to confirm + approve. It would be nice if users could not unsubscribe themselves from these lists without approval also. Sometimes you need to ensure someone gets email from a list. Or maybe anothe roption added about needing confirmation to unsubscribe from administrator.
I agree ;) We need it for a few work-related lists, so I wrote it. You can find a patch for it on sourceforge. I haven't updated it in a while, but I'm fairly sure it'll apply cleanly, or perhaps with a little offset. Barry isn't sure if this is a good idea, though, eventhough the site admin has to enable it, and it's default off. Perhaps we can persuade him ? ;)
The patch can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100500&group_id=103
Barry marked it Postponed, because it's not going in 2.0 for sure.
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