Mike Brudenell wrote: > >I had, incorrectly by the sound of it, assumed Mailman worked the same way >because: > > 1) Mailman's built-in help text for the 'description' setting says: > > description (general): A terse phrase identifying this list. > This description is used when the mailing list is listed with > other mailing lists, or in headers, and so forth. It should be > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > as succinct as you can get it, while still identifying what the > list is. > >OK, so the above might refer to the 'header' you can get Mailman to include >within the message body up at the top, or it could mean the true headers of >messages (ie, the To:/From:/Subject:/Received:/etc header lines).
As I said in my original reply, when the list is anonymous, the 'description' is included in the From: header, so the above, while misleading in your case, is correct in that the description is used in some cases in an actual message header. >By itself it's a bit ambiguous, but then we also have: > > 2) Section 2.1.1 of the Mailman Admin help pages at GNU's site > <http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node10.html> > says this: > > description > In the general list overview page, which shows you every > available mailing list, each list is displayed with a short > description. The contents of this variable is that description. > Note that in emails from the mailing list, this description is > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > also used in the comment section of the To: address. This text > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > should be relatively short and no longer than one line. > >This seems pretty clear, and I also found the same information on other >sites' help pages using Google (sadly I didn't note down the URLs for any >of these). Yes, it is clear, but unfortunately, it's wrong. >I'll just assume that Mailman (now) doesn't/shouldn't rewrite the "To:" >header as standard and the Mailman Administration help page is out of date. And we'll get the manual corrected. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
