[Mailman-Users] Biographic data on subscription?

[Richard Barrett]

At 14:01 14/02/2003, Ignacio Valdes wrote:

>Since I didn't get a reply to my somewhat turgid previous question, I'll 
>ask it again more simply: Is there a way to obtain user-entered biographic 
>data on subscription that is web-accessible to the list admin? Thanks,
>
>-- IV

MM does not currently offer the ability to capture and store other than a 
minimum of information for each subscriber.

All that is currently required for subscription is the subscriber e-mail 
address with the option of add the user's "real name".

That's all the MM holds and all you can retrieve from MM

Referring back to your previous post, you could, for instance, implement a 
subscription cgi script of your own and have that do the MM subscription on 
behalf of the user while having your script save in some database the extra 
information which MM does not want. You would probably want have some sort 
of synchronisation process between the externally held data and the MM 
subscription lists; for example, to delete subscriber related data if they 
leave the list. But doing this may be a problem if you have restricted 
privileges on the system concerned.

As an aside you might need to consider legal aspects of data protection and 
privacy if you start gluing a database of info about users on the side of 
your MM subscription list; well you would have to think about this if you 
were going to operate the system in the EU or UK.

At 04:44 13/02/2003, Ignacio Valdes wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>We would like for subscribers to enter biographical information about 
>themselves prior to approval for subscription to a list. Can the new 
>Mailman 2.1.1 do this or be customized to do it? Can it run CGI scripts? 
>If so, how?  I am running in an environment in which I am list 
>administrator, but do not have root access to the server, only web access.
>
>-- IV