RE: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list
Hmmm, the lack of response on this one leads me to assume that announce only lists are not a feature of Mailman. Short of modifying the default welcome message and mangling every other lists welcome message, this is not doable. Are there any developers monitoring this list? Are there plans to add this type of functionality in the future? It would seem reasonable that one could alter the entire contents of a welcome message for any given list without affecting every other list. A default welcome should still be available but allowed to be overridden entirely for a specific list.
I guess a workaround would be to take the unwanted verbage out of the default welcome message then prepending appropriate text to the non announce only lists.
Any other thoughts on this?
Thanks, David
-----Original Message----- From: Parker, David K [mailto:dparker@ci.bryan.tx.us] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:04 PM To: 'mailman-users@python.org' Subject: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list
We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming events in our City. In looking at mailman, it appears the standard welcome message can be prepended with some text, but you cannot customize the entire message for a specific list. We particulary want to cut out the wording about how to post to the list, since posting will not be permitted. What are the standard procedures for setting up an announce only list without effecting the welcome message for every other list on the same server? I'm sure there is a simple way that I'm overlooking.
Thanks,
David Parker
David,
I run an "announce only" list.
http://www.OhioCCW.org/mailman/listinfo/ccw-alert
Its really easy. You tell people its announcements only, no posts, and you put it into moderated mode. I even approve the announcement posts instead of telling mailman to "let them through" to prevent someone from trying to fake the sender.
I made a small hack to mailman (nobody considered it a bug, I did) so if a non-member posts to a moderated list it bounces the message into the approval queue and says "Post by a non-member" instead of "Post to a moderated list"
Just because a moderated list is moderated doesn't mean you want to let non-members post, but thats not relevent to your project.
Just setup your list as moderated and tell people its an announcement only list.
-jeff
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:01:11AM -0600 or thereabouts, Parker, David K wrote:
Hmmm, the lack of response on this one leads me to assume that announce only lists are not a feature of Mailman. Short of modifying the default welcome message and mangling every other lists welcome message, this is not doable. Are there any developers monitoring this list? Are there plans to add this type of functionality in the future? It would seem reasonable that one could alter the entire contents of a welcome message for any given list without affecting every other list. A default welcome should still be available but allowed to be overridden entirely for a specific list.
I guess a workaround would be to take the unwanted verbage out of the default welcome message then prepending appropriate text to the non announce only lists.
Any other thoughts on this?
Thanks, David
-----Original Message----- From: Parker, David K [mailto:dparker@ci.bryan.tx.us] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:04 PM To: 'mailman-users@python.org' Subject: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list
We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming events in our City. In looking at mailman, it appears the standard welcome message can be prepended with some text, but you cannot customize the entire message for a specific list. We particulary want to cut out the wording about how to post to the list, since posting will not be permitted. What are the standard procedures for setting up an announce only list without effecting the welcome message for every other list on the same server? I'm sure there is a simple way that I'm overlooking.
Thanks,
David Parker
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"DKP" == David K Parker <dparker@ci.bryan.tx.us> writes:
DKP> We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming
DKP> events in our City. In looking at mailman, it appears the
DKP> standard welcome message can be prepended with some text, but
DKP> you cannot customize the entire message for a specific
DKP> list.In Mailman 2.1 you can drop your customized listinfo.html file into the lists/<mylist>/en directory (assuming you're changing the English version of the text) and Mailman will automatically pick it up for myst the `mylist' list. The complete look up rules are documented in a comment before the maketext() function in Mailman/Utils.py.
It can be done in MM2.0, but I honestly don't remember the details and I don't have time right now to swap in those brain cells.
-Barry
Yes, it is good to be able to customize each lists listinfo.html, but it'd also be nice to be able to customize the welcome message text that gets sent out to new subscribers. For announce only lists, I'd like to remove the misleading paragraph explaing how to post to a list which I've made moderated and "unpostable to".
_Gary
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
"DKP" == David K Parker <dparker@ci.bryan.tx.us> writes:
DKP> We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming DKP> events in our City. In looking at mailman, it appears the DKP> standard welcome message can be prepended with some text, but DKP> you cannot customize the entire message for a specific DKP> list.In Mailman 2.1 you can drop your customized listinfo.html file into the lists/<mylist>/en directory (assuming you're changing the English version of the text) and Mailman will automatically pick it up for myst the `mylist' list. The complete look up rules are documented in a comment before the maketext() function in Mailman/Utils.py.
It can be done in MM2.0, but I honestly don't remember the details and I don't have time right now to swap in those brain cells.
-Barry
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"GC" == Gary Casterline <casterln@nature.berkeley.edu> writes:
GC> Yes, it is good to be able to customize each lists
GC> listinfo.html, but it'd also be nice to be able to customize
GC> the welcome message text that gets sent out to new
GC> subscribers. For announce only lists, I'd like to remove the
GC> misleading paragraph explaing how to post to a list which I've
GC> made moderated and "unpostable to".Do the same with subscribeack.txt. Actually, any template is customizable this way.
-Barry
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