Hal Huntley wrote:

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We have a request from a list administrator asking if he can have the all the members of the list listed in the footer of the message. This list is under Mailman 2.1.9.

This isn't a "personalization" listing with just the name of the member subscribing. He wants all the messages going out to have all the list members in the footer.

Is there a variable that can handle that? Or must the list maintainer just add the names by hand? He may be content with just names or email addresses.

No, there is no variable that can handle that, but one could easily put a link to the list's roster page in the footer which I think would be much better than putting everyone's address in which raises serious privacy concerns should such a message be forwarded off list.

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

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=== Mark,

Thank you for that information. I gave that URL idea a try and if I happened to be logged in as a list administrator for a list, I got a list of members. I also tried getting a roster by going to a ".../mailman/roster/<listname>" of a list I am a member of but was not logged in. I got an "authentication failed." error message. Since one needs to be a member of the list to see the members, that makes sense.

One could set the URL to point to the ".../listinfo/<listname>" page where the person could enter their email address and password to get the list members, but I think the list admininstrator wants something a bit easier to get the names.

I will share your thoughts with the list administrator about not wanting to do that anyway due to privacy concerns. Excellent point.

Hal