[Mailman-Developers] VERP and personalization modifications to the headers?

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Sun Sep 12 21:18:26 CEST 2004


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:58:01 +0200 
Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:
> At 1:36 PM -0400 2004-09-12, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> Mailman supports three levels of personalisation: OFF, ON, and FULL.
>> They choose FULL, which in turn created the behaviors you report.  ON
>> may have been a better choice.

> With this list, I think FULL was the correct choice.  This is the only
> way you can get the customized footers, etc... that give you direct
> links to the appropriate URLs you can click on to manage your
> subscriptions, etc....

While I haven't checked the implementation, given that the ON mode is
doing per-recipient customisation there's no technical reason you
couldn't do that in that mode.  Which of course leads into"

> My question is not which type of personalization is better.  My
> question is why does turning on full personalization result in this
> behaviour?

Uhhh....Barry?

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