On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, David <d...@fiteyes.com> wrote: > > > I would think this is a common request, but I can't find any > > mention of it anywhere. > > Does this actually bother your users? IME lists where this is a > problem, it's a much smaller problem than top-posting itself, and the > users aren't going to notice because they don't read any of the > included content anyway. I suspect that's why nobody (that I can > remember) has ever asked for this before. > Stephen and Mark - you guys have given me a lot of good advice. I appreciate it. Maybe I can narrow my problem and find a better solution without the challenges of a general solution. The main issue is that we include a personalized "instant unsubscribe" link in the footer, no password required. Our users seem to really want/need this. Many times they cannot unsubscribe themselves with any other method we have tried. However, we did not initially consider that any one person can easily unsubscribe another person in the thread because of the accumulated footers. Here are our current personalized footers: %(real_name)s mailing list Reply to: %(real_name)s@%(host_name)s Your settings: %(user_optionsurl)s Remove me from this list: %(user_optionsurl)s?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1&password=%(user_password)s It would probably be satisfactory to remove any url containing the string "unsubconfirm". Removing the user's user_optionsurl link would be nice, but not as absolutely necessary. I can probably find a good regex that will recognize a URL and I can tailor that to match only URLs like the above. Given that, is there a custom module that is built to apply regular expressions for search/replace? I don't know Python. (But I would love to learn it when time permits.) I reviewed http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030615. Coding the handler module itself requires some knowledge of Python and Mailman and won't be discussed further here except that there is a simple template/example at MyHandler.py<http://wiki.list.org/download/attachments/4030615/MyHandler.py?version=1&modificationDate=1283485784289> . Using that template for my purposes would require much more than changing a couple lines of code, so I don't think I can adapt/use it. I'm hoping someone has already created a handler for the purpose of doing a regex-based search/replace. Searching Google on "mailman search replace module OR handler" didn't turn up anything, however. Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
