> Are you accessing the template through email or the web access?

As I said, *I* do everything by email, and do *not* mess with the WWW
templates. I have looked at the web page for the listowner, but my
"browser" is "primitive" by most folk's standards, lynx for unix (I
don't even have a mouse), and my keyboard keystrokes sometimes produce
surprising, and undesired, results, and I would have no idea what those
with more "sophisticated" browsers would see as a result of what I did, so
*I* stick to email, and do not mess with the WWW .mailtpl templates nor
the listowners webpage.

However, the proposed new listowner might do it via the web, and probably
will, if she can. She has worked as a professional webpage designer.  She
doesn't know LISTSERV nor .mailtpl templates.  Can she do everything,
acheiving the results I mentioned (copied below), via the existing, host
site defaults, listowners web page to modify list's web presence for the
results I want?  Or will she have to mess with the WWW .mailtpl directly,
by email?

Can all of what I want even be done?

*I* am not going to be doing any of it, by email or list archive web page,
so how *I* might do it is immaterial.  What I want to know is, first, can
what I want be done?  Second, can it be done via the existing listowners
webpage, or must it, or some of it, be done via emil changes to the
.mailtpl?

Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Glenn Darwin wrote:

> Are you accessing the template through email or the web access?
>
> G
>
> Winship wrote:
>
> >Glenn Darwin wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Modify the "HTML for the main list archive screen (listname.html)"  in
> >>the templates section.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Ok, I've found that in the default.html.  Is that the only thing which
> >needs to be modified?  Can that be done via the existing litowners web
> >(which I have never used) or must it be done by "putting" the modified
> >template in the listname.mailtpl?  I've done that lots of times, but
> >never for a WWW template (wouldn't have the faintest idea what I was
> >doing, so leave them strictly alone).
> >
> >I noticed something about confidential lists in that template.  It is a
> >confidential list.  Does that make a difference?
> >
> >Will modifying that allow a link to the list filelist/catalog, but leave
> >the standard PUT and GET for the filelist/catalog strictly alone?  When
> >a new file is added to the filelist/catalog it automatically appears
> >as link on the list web page, and when a file is deleted it automatically
> >disappears from the web page?
> >
> >For the list "web page" (not the list archive, and not the filelist), will
> >change the template above allow the storing all the material from that,
> >currently at a totally independent address, on LISTSERV?  Don't want a
> >link, want that stuff stored as a "physical" part of the listname web page,
> >get rid of that other address and storage.
> >
> >The situation is this.  This list has always had two listowners, one in the
> >profession of the list, and me.  The other listowner takes care of the
> >errors (except when she is away to conferences, vacation, etc.) and the odd
> >"help" message which she receives.  I take care of the archives, the
> >filelist, listname.mailtpl, and am the list editor (all postings are
> >edited, including header, 25 - 60 per day), doing it all by email.
> >Neither of us have ever messed with the LISTSERV listname page (we both
> >search the archives via email, we know how to do it (we are from VM/VMS,
> >BITNET/EARN era) and find email searching more convenient than the web
> >searching).  The list "home page," as she calls it, the one we want to get
> >rid of, is hosted as a page of the department of where she, the other
> >listowner, works.
> >
> >She is now well past full Social Security full benefit age and is retiring,
> >though not as listowner.  However, she thinks we out to have a third
> >listowner as "backup."  Now, there wouldn't really be anything for this
> >person to do, but she has worked as a webpage designer.  So, what I was
> >thinking, was that she could tackle all this web stuff that neither of
> >us have had time, or really wanted, to go into.  But she doesn't know
> >anything about LISTSERV.  Hence my questions.  I've trying to get
> >info to give her.
> >
> >Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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