Feature Request - Show Member Name but not email address
Hello, I have a feature request for MailMan. Would you please add to the Privacy Options section, Membership Exposure, an option to show only the member name, but keep their email address hidden from the member list, that non-admin members may view? I'd like my members to see who, by name, is on the list, but not divulge their email addresses./ /
Mark Sapiro informed the list that "You can do this, but only by modifying the FormatUsers method in Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py."
Unfortunately, MailMan admins on shared hosting do not have direct access to Mailman files. If this option were added to Membership Exposure, we could set this option without necessity for direct file access. Further, my hosting provider will not modify that file just for me, as there are likely hundreds of other Mailman users, using the same installation as I.
Thank you.
-- *__________________________________ Gregory Beyer *greg@beyerusa.net
On 7/19/2021 6:59 AM, Gregory Beyer wrote:
Would you please add to the Privacy Options section, Membership Exposure, an option to show only the member name, but keep their email address hidden from the member list, that non-admin members may view? I'd like my members to see who, by name, is on the list, but not divulge their email addresses./
An email address is not required to have name text, so you'll potentially see unidentified subscriptions. Or sub's that say "Fred fred@fred.com". In most of the lists I manage, there are quite a lot of unnamed members (who where all approved for membership by an admin).
Later,
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I can see the potential for that issue. But I don't see that as a reason for not making it at least available to admins who might want it. Further, if a user does does not want to provide complete, or any, name at all, with Mailman, at least, I don't think that can be mitigated. OTOH, if one collects email addresses by way of a form front-end, one can require name along with email address.
On 7/19/21 6:59 AM, Gregory Beyer wrote:
Hello, I have a feature request for MailMan.
Mailman 2.1 is end of life. No new features will be implemented. See https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/message/BL... and if you are interested in a very long discussion of this issue, see https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/thread/3UEESR...
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