[Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

[Dan Mick]

Which "they" do you have in mind?

No one that I'm aware of on the Mailman team is against the
idea of editing messages in the moderation process.

> I will definitely issue an editing patch for 2.1 when it goes gold.  Since 
> this is one of their "we don't think you should WANT to do this" 
> hot-buttons, like controlling the List-* headers, I don't want to issue 
> patches for prerelease versions and encourage them to do any 
> counter-engineering.
> 
> --On Monday, April 15, 2002 2:09 PM -0700 Marc MERLIN 
> <marc_news at vasoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:55:01AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote:
> >> "Billie R. McNamara" <billie at tnhillbillie.net> wrote:
> >> > We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list.  But, we aren't able
> >> > to edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just one
> >> > inappropriate word).
> >> >
> >> > How can we do this?
> >>
> >> There is a FAQ entry that wants you to hand edit various spool files,
> >> but  you can patch 2.0.8 to allow message editing.
> >
> > I think the patch will be necessary for mailman 2.1, it unfortunately
> > stores the message on disk in a database format, making hand editing on
> > the mm server not that easy.