On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:53:06PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > There's another couple things in pipermail that I also wanted to bring up. > > #1. Having the link to "Download the raw archive" is IMHO a serious > serurity leak. This link to the .mbox file allows the user to grab > every email address that has posted to the list... even if you have > Mailman "remove" them. I take this out of every install I do. How many > people really want a .mbox style file anyways, with all the header > junk?
That'd be those of us who use a Real Mail Program to handle mail and want to use it to sift through archives, too. > #2. Apparently messages like mine don't wrap properly, because > Pipermail uses the <pre> </pre> to display it. Would not a better > approach be to simply change the font to a fixed-width style? From > what I read of the HTML spec, most all html tags within the <pre>s > still get executed. IIRC, I grabbed such an archive from some Mailman maintained list somewhere, and was agahst to see that *everything* in it had been HTMLized and PREized. I wish I could remember where, so I could figure out if it was merely horribly configured... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 804 5015 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
