[Mailman-Developers] Pseudonym lists
Hello, a natural extension of an anonymous list is a pseudonym list: if the user specifies a pseudonym, then the messages posted by this user carry this pseudonym in the name section of the From: field (along with the list email address). I hacked my mailman 2.1.5 installation to accept pseudonyms for all anonymous lists. The pseudnym is an additional component of UserDesc with very similar behavior as the user name. Users who subscribe through the web to an anonymous list have the option to specify a pseudonym. Please look at http://marx.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo and feel free to subscribe to the pseud and test lists and take them through the paces. I need this feature for a class in the Fall Semester and would like to iron out any bugs. This feature fits painlessly into the ordinary mailman interface, and if there is interest I would be happy to submit the code. Hans G. Ehrbar -- Hans G. Ehrbar http://www.econ.utah.edu/~ehrbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Economics Department, University of Utah (801) 581 7797 (my office) 1645 Campus Center Dr., Rm 308 (801) 581 7481 (econ office) Salt Lake CityUT 84112-9300 (801) 585 5649 (FAX) ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers 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-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] Sender field
I strongly second the idea of replacing the listname-bounces address by a different address which does not suggest that something went wrong. This brings to mind another example of an unfortunate choice of words: on some of my mailing lists people got outright paranoid because they received a message that their submission was not accepted because of "suspicious headers". They thought they were being censored. Appearances sometimes mean a lot. Hans G. Ehrbar -- Hans G. Ehrbar http://www.econ.utah.edu/~ehrbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Economics Department, University of Utah (801) 581 7797 (my office) 1645 Campus Center Dr., Rm 308 (801) 581 7481 (econ office) Salt Lake CityUT 84112-9300 (801) 585 5649 (FAX) ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Developers] Parsing and Rendering rfc8222
If mailman would be able to write an xml representation of each message to a separate file, that would be wonderful. Then one would be able to use xlst stylesheets to make custom archives. I hacked something like this together for an on-line class. The workflow was: (1) mailman writes each message to disk as xml file, while at the same time also distributing the messages to the students. (2) I crawled these xml files with emacs (could also have been python but I was more comfortable with emacs) to concentrate as much info into each individual file as possible: each file had elements indicating which was the previous and the next message by the same student, and the previous and next message answering the same study question. If a student was referring to other messages in his message, this was also coded in xml in such a way that hyperlinks could be built from that code. (3) I also manually encoded the grade into this xml file, and included commentaries about the homework which would be visible in the archive, and commentaries which would only be sent privately to the student. If the answer was written so poorly that I had to edit the whole thing, then the original and the edited version was visible side by side in the archive. (4) different xlst stylesheets produced an archive of all messages with my comments accessible to all students, grade notification emails, and survey reports for every student about all of his or her grades. This is only one example. A translation of a mailing list discussion into a series of xml files can have many applications. Apparently there does not seem to be a generally accepted xml schema for email messages. I do not understand why. I would have thought this would be one of the first things to evolve after the xml specification was finalized. Am I missing something? Is it the difficulty to code all the non-standards compliant emails? Wouldn't it possible without too much trouble to turn the internal python representation of emails into xml? Hans G. Ehrbar -- Hans G. Ehrbar http://www.econ.utah.edu/~ehrbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Economics Department, University of Utah (801) 581 7797 (my office) 1645 Campus Center Dr., Rm 308 (801) 581 7481 (econ office) Salt Lake CityUT 84112-9300 (801) 585 5649 (FAX) ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
