Disabling “Mass Subscription” in Mailman

Some times you don’t want to allow your mailing list administrators to subscribe email addresses to their list en masse; think spammers. To disable this feature in Mailman apply this patch to the admin.py code:


--- admin.py.orig Wed Jan 18 13:43:28 2006
+++ admin.py Wed Jan 18 13:47:19 2006
@@ -1131,14 +1131,15 @@
# MASS SUBSCRIBE
GREY = mm_cfg.WEB_ADMINITEM_COLOR
table = Table(width='90%')
- table.AddRow([
- Label(_('Subscribe these users now or invite them?')),
- RadioButtonArray('subscribe_or_invite',
- (_('Subscribe'), _('Invite')),
- 0, values=(0, 1))
- ])
- table.AddCellInfo(table.GetCurrentRowIndex(), 0, bgcolor=GREY)
- table.AddCellInfo(table.GetCurrentRowIndex(), 1, bgcolor=GREY)
+ #table.AddRow([
+ # Label(_('Subscribe these users now or invite them?')),
+ # RadioButtonArray('subscribe_or_invite',
+ # (_('Subscribe'), _('Invite')),
+ # 0, values=(0, 1))
+ # ])
+ #table.AddCellInfo(table.GetCurrentRowIndex(), 0, bgcolor=GREY)
+ #table.AddCellInfo(table.GetCurrentRowIndex(), 1, bgcolor=GREY)
+ table.AddRow(['
'])
table.AddRow([
Label(_('Send welcome messages to new subscribees?')),
RadioButtonArray('send_welcome_msg_to_this_batch',