[Mailman-Developers] suggestion

[Matt Davis]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ricardo Kustner wrote:

> How about moving things like the list welcome message, headers, footers
> and other multiple line texts out of the database and into seperate
> text files? And treat/edit them in the same way as the html templates...
> this would it also make it easier to edit them directly.
> I remember having a lot of difficulties (when I started using mailman
> about a year ago) with creating the welcome message because the textarea 
> was too small and strange things happened when i cut/pasted it into the
> textarea with Netscape on Linux (I had to boot windows just to be able 
> to enter the welcome message properly ;) )

I agree.  But maybe have both available.  As in, the web page grabs the
info from the txt files and allows you to edit via the web interface or
directly from the txt files.

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