CJ Rhoads wrote:
First off, I'd like to thank you heartily for the work that you (and other, I assume) have done on Mailman. It is wonderful.
I noticed on the wish list a couple of things that I had hoped Mailman can do. I'd like to verify that the current version cannot do these things and find out if there is a workaround. Alternatively, perhaps I misunderstood and simply need to know what I need to do in order to accomplish my objectives.
- I want my subscribers to be able to subscribe with an email so I can ask them for their email and have my web page automatically subscribe them (after replying to a confirmation email, of course. Just like Yahoo groups works).
Funny enough I just did this last night for a project. I'm no great shakes as a coder so there may be other ways of doing it but I put the following HTML into a web page:
<form target="_blank" Method=POST ACTION="http://www.domain.org/mailman/subscribe/listname"> <center> <span class="pn-normal">Subscribe to our<br> Campaign 2002<br> infolist -</span><br> <span class="pn-title">Working to Win!</span><br><br> <span class="pn-normal">Your email address:</span><br> <input type="Text" name="email" size="15"><br> <input type="hidden" name="pw" value="password"> <input type="hidden" name="pw-conf" value="password"> <input type="hidden" name="digest" value="0"> <input type="Submit" name="email-button" value="Subscribe"><br><br> or <a href="http://www.domain.org/mailman/listinfo/listname" target="_blank"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a> for information about the list. </center> </form>
See it in action at http://wwwoxfordlibdems.org.uk/
- I want to be able to suppress all the long headers sent out in the messages. Most of my subscribers are totally computer illiterate and that long page of addresses and useful information will just confuse the heck out of them. I wouldn't mind having it at the bottom, but currently they have to scroll to see the actual message - which is not optimum.
I don't see them. Unless in Netscape Mail I turn on all headers. And I would never do that unless I particularly want to trace something. It's only four extra lines isn't it over and above a lot of headers that your users will be seeing on a zillion other ordinary e-mails? Tell them to switch off all headers.
Can you help?
Hope that helps
Jock
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