[Mailman-Developers] Done.

[Mark Sapiro]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Jo Rhett wrote:
>
>>Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>> Are you aware that not once in the "before next release:" thread is
>>> there any mention that you have patches? Perhaps this has been
>>> mentioned before, and I missed it, but I would be interested in seeing
>>> them.


I apologize. When I wrote the above and the reply below, I had not seen
the post from earlier today at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-March/019976.html>.



>>I'm not on the mailing list any more.  But not only did I say this 
>>multiple times, but I said this directly in a reply to you:
>>
>>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-March/019809.html
>
>
>What you said in that reply was "I disabled all the backscatter aliases
>4 years ago, and haven't heard a single complaint."
>
>You also acknowledged in a subsequent post that "obviously you also
>have to patch the headers added to list e-mail to not reference these
>names"
>
>This is to me at least, not the same thing as saying you have actual
>patches. Close perhaps, but not the same.
>
>
>>The patches I did were brute-force patches for 2.1.4 or maybe even 
>>earlier.  Any competent programmer could do the same patches in about 15 
>>minutes.
>
>
>Maybe so, and maybe even I could, but even a checklist such as the
>following, presumably tested, list is of interest.
>
>
>>* Create only a single alias per list (remove 11-12 lines from the output)
>>
>>* Change the default to D_DISCARD in two places
>>
>>* Remove the option to reject message (leave accept/discard) in moderation
>>
>>* Change the headers to give only http addresses for subscribe/unsubscribe.
>>

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