Were you to be running MM 2.1.2 you would find the following list configuration options, which if set as indicated would lead to a user being subscribed without having to respond to or indeed receive any emails except the subsequent normal list traffic. The list admin would have to OK the subscription; being a responsible list admin, you would not want no constraints or checks on who is being subscribed to your list would you?
If I recollect, similar options are available on the MM 2.0.13 interface.
If you take a look at the mailman-users list archives you may find recipes for password-less unsubscription. I will leave that for you to research.
The web hosting admin person you refer to might like to spend some time checking the web admin GUI of Mailman for the options it offers.
On General Options page under Notifications:
set 'Send monthly password reminder' to No
set 'Send welcome message to newly subscribed...' to No
On Privacy Options page:
set 'What steps are require for subscription' to 'Require approval'
As regards the rude tone of your post, you would do well to remember that Mailman is Open Software, you are paying no charge for either the software license or support and that the people you are asking to respond via this list do so because they want to help; not because they are being paid to tolerate your sarcasm.
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 07:21 PM, David Hunt wrote:
Dear All,
I'm trying to run a simple mailing list so that people can sign up to receive news related to my career as a musician. I would like it to be simple enough that my grandmother could sign up for it if she wanted to. Right now, it is a mess - the very first person who signed up, who was quite computer literate, made the comment "that was a lot of emails!!" So here is what I want:
= When the user is asked to confirm a subscription, the confirmation message is a five page essay in legalese. It should just say "to confirm your subscription, please reply to this message or else _click here_." How do I change it? The admin person at my web host did not know of a way.
= After the user is confirmed, there is ANOTHER essay, longer than the first, detailing the web pages and passwords and all sorts of rediculous options they will need to remember in order to get one email once every two months about my music. How do I change that message?
= How do I make it so users don't need a password to subscribe/unsubscribe? Or, maybe I can force the computer to assign them all the same password, even when I sign them up? Again, my web admin didn't know of a way.
Ideally, a person should be able to go to my website, type in their email address, hit "subscribe", confirm by replying to one simple email, and then receive the messages I send them; and then if they want off, they just click a link in any one of those emails. No passwords, no options - just a mailing list, for goodness sake! I hope that's not too much to ask. Keep in mind when you reply that I'm a musician and not a unix guru.
Regards, David Hunt http://dnotes.net/
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