Hi,
Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses?
We're moving over to Pairlist a list where this is particularly important (i.e. being able to keep track of the NAMES of the members), and I would appreciate suggestions on how to do it.
Since I'm not a member of this list, I'd be grateful if you could cc' marina@programmer-software.com!
TIA :-) marina
On 24 November 2001, marina said:
Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses?
With Mailman 2.0.x, this is not possible. Mailman only remembers subscriber's address, password, and options.
Greg-- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org
Thanks Greg! It's useful information.
Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that CGI will then email Mailman to start the subscription. The other information I guess we can store in MySQL or similar.
Do you think anybody else would be interested in this? If you think they might be, we'd be happy to post this to the Mailman site.
Cheers,
marina <http://www.programmer-software.com>
At 9:44 AM -0500 27/11/01 [dmy], you wrote about [Subject] Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names:
On 24 November 2001, marina said:
Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses?
With Mailman 2.0.x, this is not possible. Mailman only remembers subscriber's address, password, and options.
Greg-- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org
On 28 November 2001, marina said:
Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that CGI will then email Mailman to start the subscription. The other information I guess we can store in MySQL or similar.
Do you think anybody else would be interested in this? If you think they might be, we'd be happy to post this to the Mailman site.
Considering that Mailman 2.1 has the ability to track real names, your hack probably won't be needed in the long term.
Greg
I think that many folks would be interested in this kind of Add-on functionality. Certainly MM v2.1 will be able to collect and maintain user names, but what about other information that folks might want to collect?
If you were to write a CGI/SQL solution for this (a general one that subscribed the person using email...) then I think a lot of folks would be interested in seeing it, and expanding on it to meet their individual needs! And it would also be compatable with MM v2.1 since it used mail to subscribe the person.
Jon Carnes
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:11, Greg Ward wrote:
On 28 November 2001, marina said:
Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that CGI will then email Mailman to start the subscription. The other information I guess we can store in MySQL or similar.
Do you think anybody else would be interested in this? If you think they might be, we'd be happy to post this to the Mailman site.
Considering that Mailman 2.1 has the ability to track real names, your hack probably won't be needed in the long term.
Greg
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
On 24 November 2001, marina said:
Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses?
I've just added a new entry to the FAQ Wizard:
3.2. How can I track subscriber's real names?
With Mailman 2.0.x, you can't: Mailman only remembers each subscriber's email address, password, and list options.
(Or visit http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.002.htp)
If this is wrong or incomplete, please visit the FAQ Wizard and update it yourself. In particular, can Mailman 2.1 track real names?
Greg-- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org
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