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Hi all,

One thing that's been troubling for me running mailman via a web host, is the lack of ability to edit templates for more than just the listinfo, subscribe, and options html pages since I don't have access to just copy and edit the files from a shell like I would on servers I control.

For example, when I'm setting up an announcement list, it's important to me to be able to edit subscribeack.txt so I can remove the part about posting to the list. I was curious about doing this via the web so I took a look at ~mailman/Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py. Like the other parts of mailman I've looked at, the code is really easy to follow -- even for someone that doesn't really know python (which is a great credit to all the mailman developers. ;-)

I added another entry to the template_data array (or list or what's it called in python? :). Then I visited the web page for editing templates and there was my link to the subscribeack.txt file. I edited it and saved and it sure looks like it worked without any problems.

So my question is: why not allow more template editing via the web for those folks who use mailman via a webhost? What issues are there with allowing a list admin to edit these files -- over and above the issues that might be raised with the templates they already can edit, that is?

Not knowing the code well the worst thing I can think of is that the admin could mess up their templates and give themselves a headache. If that's it, perhaps a simple function that would revert to the default template would alleviate this concern.

Looking for a little enlightenment,

Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp

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