Mark <mailman@primatesynthesis.com> wrote:

I'm am having trouble putting together a Welcome Message. Using the escape characters for ", &, < and > do not seem to working. I'm getting very odd results whether I try to use the escape characters or not. Not using them results with the escape characters appearing in the delivered message (ie. "&" yields "&"), and using them results in this weird doubling thing (eg." &" yields "&amp;"). Any ideas??

Edit the template directly and put it in the lists/listname directory. See the FAQ at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py article 4.48. The template for the welcome message is subscribeack.txt.

Further, how can I change the text that Mailman automatically appends to the Welcome Message?? Can I set it so that it appends nothing??

See above.

For you developers, why doesn't it just use plain text, simply treating text as text?? It is for generating email, not a webpage.

RTFM Notice: I have looked through all of the available documents at http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ and went through the archives for the last several months. The list and archives at http://listowner.org/ do not seem to be working at this time.

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037775.html re: listowner.org

Did you look at the FAQ?

Did you look at the archives of the mailman-users@python.org list? This comes up all the time there.

archives -> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ searchable -> http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/

If you didn't find these resources, is there something that could be added/changed to make them more obvious?

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