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At 05:45 PM 5/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
 >This is eminently doable, but you have to be willing and able to patch 
Mailman.
 >
 >1. Patch Mailman to be able to turn off the List-* headers on a per-list
 >basis so you don't confuse your subscribers with instructions that don't
 >work. I can send this patch to anyone who wants it. I haven't figured out
 >how to contribute it to SourceForge.

That part has been done after being yelled at many times about doing so 
violates RFC when indeed it doesn't.


 >2. Edit listinfo.html for each list you want to have non-standard
 >instructions on its listinfo page.

That fixes one of the pages.  Does not do anything for the generic welcome 
message or all the other places that extraneous links are listed.


 >3. Restrict posting by setting "member_posting_only" to "no" and "posters"
 >to the address(es) of people allowed to post. These are both on the
 >"privacy" admin page.

Yep thats the one logical part of the software.


 >That's it. If you would spend half the amount of time learning Python and
 >HTML as you do complaining, you would have figured all of this out by now.

I know HTML just fine thank you but I am not a Python programmer.  Even if 
I were the spaghetti code that this is makes it difficult to patch into 
logical useable code.

 >And I was an Aerosmith fan before you were. They played at a giant beer bash
 >at my college circa 1973 (they had one album out). Dozens of kegs and "cups"
 >the size of large popcorn vats at the movies. People were passed out
 >everywhere. It was a good time.

I doubt you were and if your idea of a good time is having everyone passed 
out from being drunk that could explain a lot about your code.


 >- Bob
 >
 >At 05:15 PM 5/21/02, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote:
 >>LOTS OF LUCK!   I asked how to do this and only got rude answers that said
 >I am trying to force the software to do things it was not intended to do.
 >If you figure it out let me know.  BTW the actual restricting of posts to
 >just you is the easy part.  The numerous referneces to web pages, posting
 >instructions, etc that do not apply to a news list will be a PITA.
 >>
 >>
 >>At 07:37 PM 5/20/2002 -0700, Benjamin Young wrote:
 >>>Hi all,
 >>>
 >>>I am new to Mailman and have searched the archives without finding a
 >solution to my problem but could not find an answer. I would like to create
 >a list where only the admin has permission to post (e.g. an announcements
 >list).
 >>>
 >>>I could find no way to do this but this is OK if there is a way to
 >customize the welcome and help messages. I already customized the
 >List-specific text prepended to new-subscriber welcome message but this only
 >adds the message to the beginning of the pre-written message. I could not
 >find any folders related to the list software in my site's files but can I
 >modify the entire welcome message for each of my lists?
 >>>
 >>>Thanks!
 >>>Benjamin
 >
 >
 >
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