Re: changing intro of a list

"Joe R. Jah" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.majordomo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Roman Fendesack wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:21:46 +0100
> From: Roman Fendesack <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: changing intro of a list
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am a majordomo-newbie and looking for a solution of my problem:
> 
> 1. My ISP provides majordomo but NO support for it

If you can convince your ISP to apply this patch:

 ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/majordomo-patches/1.94.5/majordomo.7

read on;)

> 2. As I am in Germany I want to set up a special intro for my lists
>    (most of the potential users won't be able to communicate in English).
> 
> 3. I know the command to change the intro:
> 
>     <newinfo> <list> <password> ...

You mean:

      <newintro> <list> <password> ...

> BUT even after changing the intro new subscribed members get a kind
> of DEFAULT-INTRO with my intro attached AT THE END.

The patched majordomo will send only the contents of <List>.intro file if
one exists, without prepending the standard majordomo greeting.

> MY QUESTION:
> Is there a possiblity to configure majordomo (i.e. by changing the 
> config-file) so that this DEFAULT-INFO disappears? 

When the patch is applied all you need to do is to create a List.intro
file.  No more pesky default majordomo greeting;)

> Again: My ISP doesn't provide any support, and so I am not able to
> make changes on the server-side.

If they apply the patch; they wouldn't need to provide any support.

> Thank you very much and have a nice Christmas
> 
> Roman

Regards,

Joe
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