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 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:55:01AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote: > >> "Billie R. McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
