[Mailman-Developers] idea

[Dan Mick]

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:45:37PM -0700, Dan Mick wrote:
> > > > admindb.py for approved posts :
> > > > When a post is held for approval, convert the email-address
> > > > of the poster to a hyperlink to the options page for that
> > > > user ("/mailman/options/listname/email--at--host.com")
> > > Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py line #215
> > >     t.AddRow([Bold('From:'), '<A HREF="%s/%s">%s</A>' % 
(mlist.GetRelativeScriptURL('options'), Utils.ObscureEmail(sender), sender)])
> > > there should be a cleaner way to code this, but for now it makes my daily 
work with the
> > > posts on our moderated list a lot easier...
> > What do you use this for?  Punitive unsubscription?
> 
> i actually had to look up the word 'punitive' in an English-Dutch dicitionary 
:)

oops, sorry!..

> anyway, no I don't use it for punitive unsubscription... but often people post 
message
> like "please unsubscribe me" or "how come I don't receive any more mail from 
the list?"
> (the latter happens when they had a full mailbox and mailman automatically 
disabled 
> their account).... though it's possible to write a message with explanation, 
in most
> cases (especially considering the lack of computer knowledge of most of the
> subscribers) this only confuses them more... so I usually want to fix it 
myself.

Oh, okay, that makes perfect sense.  (most of my admin tasks are rejecting
HTML, attachments, and messages Cc'ed to 1000 AOLers...I get very
few sub/unsub requests.  Mostly those are email to the listmaster
directly.)