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 > > > >------------------------------------------------------ >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 ------------------------------------------------------ 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
