Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] more list creation changes

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
> Sylvain and all,

Hi Karl,

> A couple other ideas about list creation, as long as we're munging it:
>
> 1) Enable listhelper by default.  Almost everyone welcomes it, saying
>    gee, why wasn't this done sooner :).  Out of the many hundreds of
>    lists we've added it to, exactly one person has decided not to use it.

I have to say "Of course!".

> 2) Put a note about listhelper and other default settings on the
>    https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/admin/index.php page (as well as
>    mailing to savannah-announce).  That's when people are going to want
>    to see it, after all.

+1

> 3) On the cosmetic side, how about if we drop the dumb default footer of
> msg_footer = """_______________________________________________
> %(real_name)s site list
> %(real_name)address@hidden(host_name)s
> %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s"""
>
> It seems so unnecessarily verbose.  I can easily imagine no footer by
> default, which is what we reset most of our lists too, or at most
> msg_footer = """--
> %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s"""

Good idea.
I'd welcome this change in existing lists, too.