[Tutor] membership monitoring In TinyList.

[Kirk Bailey]

I have a user who wants a list for the volunteer fire department he
runs. OK. He likes TinyList. Even better. Likes the web management of
membership, ease of use, all smiles on my part.

And he wants to be able to monitor membership in his list.

Hmmm, TL was designed to protect privacy. Till now, no such feature was
envisioned. I cobbled up a simple shtml page with some ssi to include
their subscriber file, and it worked fine, BUT, anyone coming across the
address can access it, no safeguards.

So I am designing a new feature, and implementing a owner's file.  a
form will accept listname, owner's email address, and a password, and
submit to another script. This checks the owners file, and IF it
matches, display the subscriber file.

OK, the form could have been static html, but then someone has to go in
and edit it to include the correct domain name/url for the script. This
uses the already existing self configuring feature to read the config
file and handle building the form page automagically, easier for
amateurs JUST able to get the thing installed and running.

The form script is done, here it is:
http://www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLmembershipform.py
Granted, it can stand a little tidying up on text layout.

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Respectfully,
             Kirk D Bailey


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