Jo Rhett wrote:

Mark Sapiro wrote:

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Are you aware that not once in the "before next release:" thread is there any mention that you have patches? Perhaps this has been mentioned before, and I missed it, but I would be interested in seeing them.

I'm not on the mailing list any more. But not only did I say this multiple times, but I said this directly in a reply to you:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-March/019809.html

What you said in that reply was "I disabled all the backscatter aliases 4 years ago, and haven't heard a single complaint."

You also acknowledged in a subsequent post that "obviously you also have to patch the headers added to list e-mail to not reference these names"

This is to me at least, not the same thing as saying you have actual patches. Close perhaps, but not the same.

The patches I did were brute-force patches for 2.1.4 or maybe even earlier. Any competent programmer could do the same patches in about 15 minutes.

Maybe so, and maybe even I could, but even a checklist such as the following, presumably tested, list is of interest.

• Create only a single alias per list (remove 11-12 lines from the output)

• Change the default to D_DISCARD in two places

• Remove the option to reject message (leave accept/discard) in moderation

• Change the headers to give only http addresses for subscribe/unsubscribe.

I kid you not, it's less text than this message. It's also very brute-force and I can understand why people would want something supported by the Mailman developers.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan