bugs wrote:

Cary mentioned that it would be cool if we could obfuscate/"nospam" the list admin address by default (for example, $list list run by $admin-emails-with-mailto-to-"-owner" switched to $list run by $list-owner (at) lists (dot) wikimedia (dot) org).

There are probably a few ways to go about this, so I'll just give you the information he gave me and let you guys figure out the best way. :-)

<kibble> I'm back with more questions... does anyone know where the variables are defined? (e.g. <MM-Mailman-Footer>)
<kibble> Is it possible to add new variables? And if we edit the default listinfo.html, will it get overwritten in the next update?
<msapiro> kibble: 1) Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py 2) You can add new variables. 3) if you edit the listinfo template via the list's admin GUI or following the instructions at http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9 they will not be overwritten in an update, but your new variable definitions in HTMLFormatter.py will be.

Sounds like some lists might preferes to have reply-to set to the original author. I am not sure how we could have a consensus on this. Either it could be the default settings or up to the list to choose if they want reply to go to the list.

I am not sure we should take such a decision.

Not sure about masking list owners... it's sometimes very useful to know, who is *really* hiding behind the list owner, some list admins don't always remember they
are list admins and so on. If having full email address is an issue, a wiki-nickname or just username (cary, moka, ...) or something would be much better.

bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #2)

Sounds like some lists might preferes to have reply-to set to the original
author.

Indeed. This is just the default mailing list settings for new lists. I already make these changes whenever I create a new mailing this, this is just making the list creation process easier. :-)

Most of our mailing lists will want the reply-to set to the list itself, so it makes sense to make that the default.

bugs wrote:

Bump this a little bit.

For now we can do just the "change the default reply to" mentioned in comment 1 -- it's a one character switch-a-roo. :-) I'll create another bug to do the other stuff if we decide we want that in the future.

There should not be a problem with this since I'm the one who creates mailing lists and change all of the lists I create to "reply to list" already. I'm pretty sure that we always *wanted* replies to go to the list anyway because [[wikitech:Lists.wikimedia.org#Mailman setup]] says "Set Reply-To to the list by default".

Removing "shell" keyword for things that aren't directly doable by shell users etc

Adding ops keyword

Removing shell keyword if exists

http://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1240 for changing
default reply-to

Reported fixed on RT. Please let me know if there is a problem.

bugs wrote:

Confirmed that it's working. Thanks, Mark!