Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:28:56AM CDT > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > Well-written technical documentation, however, is also somewhat > > rarer than one might hope. > > True. But Mailman's is well better than average in my experience > because about half of it is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread stephen
Lindsay Haisley writes: > Well-written technical documentation, however, is also somewhat > rarer than one might hope. True. But Mailman's is well better than average in my experience because about half of it is in the FAQ, based on the Internet tradition of codifying best current practices (i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:24:42AM CDT > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > For a project I'm working on I just de-geeked the Namazu search > > engine example page, which used Emacs, FreeBSD and other techie > > terms as search word examples. I replaced all the geek words

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:49 AM +0200 10/17/06, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > English is not first language for me so I am not sure I should > contribute but a couple of very simple things for starters. Actually, I find that people who are new to a subject like this are the ones that are in the best position to help u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: > That's a wonderful idea. However, since most of the people who contribute to > these efforts are people who've been around for a while and who understand > the importance of things like reading the FAQs, this is kind of a > self-selecting comm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread stephen
Lindsay Haisley writes: > Thus spake Brad Knowles on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 06:11:28PM CDT > > At 8:03 PM +0200 10/16/06, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > > > Using this opportunity, has anyone thought of really making all these > > > pages simpler, less jargon-free and more understandable for a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Brad Knowles on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 06:11:28PM CDT > At 8:03 PM +0200 10/16/06, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > Using this opportunity, has anyone thought of really making all these > > pages simpler, less jargon-free and more understandable for a typical, > > non-technical user? > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:03 PM +0200 10/16/06, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Using this opportunity, has anyone thought of really making all these > pages simpler, less jargon-free and more understandable for a typical, > non-technical user? That's a wonderful idea. However, since most of the people who contribute

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> I want to have a simple form that has an e-mail address field and a >> submit button to add users to my mailing list. I have tried editing the >> existing form to give me what I need but I haven't been successful. Does >> any one have some sample

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jason Snodgrass wrote: >I want to have a simple form that has an e-mail address field and a >submit button to add users to my mailing list. I have tried editing the >existing form to give me what I need but I haven't been successful. Does >any one have some sample code that they have used to do

[Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread Jason Snodgrass
I want to have a simple form that has an e-mail address field and a submit button to add users to my mailing list. I have tried editing the existing form to give me what I need but I haven't been successful. Does any one have some sample code that they have used to do this?