2004.04.21 14:55 "Re: [Tiff] hi", by Frank Warmerdam
Suggestion to Frank and his software:
- Is an update available that appends footers the correct way, being to the proper parts of MIME messages, not just the bottom of the message which is part of no MIME part and thus not ever seen. The new generation of posters doesn't even know what plain text is, mails bloat ugly MIME HTML without even being aware, and thus we are seeing the footer appended only to old-time poster mails these days.
Joris,
I am not aware of how to change the way that the stuff at the bottom is added to posts.
- Is it an option to have this footer explicitaly refer to the mailman/listinfo/tiff page as a way to unsubscribing, to cure this old problem of people not knowing/remembering how and get angry in the end?
I looked through all the configuration options and was surprised to not find any control over what text gets attached to messages.
- Someone suggested to have this footer also point to the new archive, a while ago, maybe now is the time to consider that? IIRC, you responded that was an option as soon as I was satisfied with the archive and it was being auto-updated. I am, and it is, sort-off.
I would be willing to do this if I could control the footer text.
- Another old discussion: why is the standard reply-to the original sender, and not the list? This is troublesome, messages are sent privatly to people that are subscribing to a public list, valuable messages are not received by the list by mistake, and holes appear in the archives...
This is controversial. I manage lots of lists which force to reply-to back to the list and I get lots of complaints. Here, by happenstance, I do it the other way and also get complaints. I am not inclined to change this (either way) for now as it isn't clear it would be progress.
Best regards,
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