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#1260 Misleading text
Mailman is used at UC Berkeley for mailing list management. Unfortunately, many students (not me, obviously) are being confused by what appears to be a standard introductory text:
"To post to this list, send your email to:"
At least two people thought that they should send their email address to the given address in order to join the mailing list, thus spamming everyone on the list.
I suggest that this be changed to:
"To post to this list, send the email to:"
Or basically anything other than what is currently standard.
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I assume you are talking about the text in the "welcome" email sent to new members.
I will change this to "To post to this list, send your message to:" for Mailman 2.2.
In the mean time, note that any list admin can change this text and anything else in the welcome email for the list by going to the list admin -> Edit the public HTML pages and text files link and editing the Welcome email text file. In addition, the Mailman site admin can follow the instructions at <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9> and make a site wide version of the subscribeack.txt template (the welcome message).
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Yeah, thanks; that sums it up nicely. At any rate I tried to send an email to whoever maintains Mailman; hopefully someone who can do something knows how to fix it.