On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:58:01 +0200 Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

At 1:36 PM -0400 2004-09-12, J C Lawrence wrote:

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Mailman supports three levels of personalisation: OFF, ON, and FULL. They choose FULL, which in turn created the behaviors you report. ON may have been a better choice.

With this list, I think FULL was the correct choice. This is the only way you can get the customized footers, etc... that give you direct links to the appropriate URLs you can click on to manage your subscriptions, etc....

While I haven't checked the implementation, given that the ON mode is doing per-recipient customisation there's no technical reason you couldn't do that in that mode. Which of course leads into"

My question is not which type of personalization is better. My question is why does turning on full personalization result in this behaviour?

Uhhh....Barry?

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