-The General Options category is where you can set a variety of
-variables that affect basic behavior and public information. In the
-descriptions that follow, the variable name is given first, along with
-an overview and a description of what that variable controls.
+These variables, grouped under the general list personality section,
+control some public information about the mailing list.
+
+
real_name
+
Every mailing list has both a posting name and a real
+ name. The posting name shows up in urls and in email addresses,
+ e.g. the mylist in mylist@example.com. The posting
+ name is always presented in lower case, with alphanumeric
+ characters and no spaces. The list's real name is used in some
+ public information and email responses, such as in the general
+ list overview. The real name can differ from the posting name by
+ case only. For example, if the posting name is mylist, the
+ real name can be Posting.
-
-
-Subsections
+
+
+
owner
+
This variable contains a list of email addresses, one address per
+ line, of the list owners. These addresses are used whenever the
+ list owners need to be contacted, either by the system or by end
+ users. Often, these addresses are used in combination with the
+ moderator addresses (see below).
+
+
+
+
moderator
+
This variable contains a list of email addresses, one address per
+ line, of the list moderators. These addresses are often used in
+ combination with the owner addresses. For example, when
+ you email mylist-owner@example.com, both the owner and
+ moderator addresses will receive a copy of the message.
+
+
+
+
description
+
In the general list overview page, which shows you every available
+ mailing list, each list is displayed with a short description.
+ The contents of this variable is that description. Note that in
+ emails from the mailing list, this description is also used in the
+ comment section of the To: address. This text should
+ be relatively short and no longer than one line.
+
+
+
+
info
+
This variable contains a longer description of the mailing list.
+ It is included at the top of the list's information page, and it
+ can contain HTML. However, blank lines will be automatically
+ converted into paragraph breaks. Preview your HTML though,
+ because unclosed or invalid HTML can prevent display of parts of
+ the list information page.
+
+
+
+
subject_prefix
+
This is a string that will be prepended to the
+ Subject: header of any message posted to the list.
+ For example, if a message is posted to the list with a
+ Subject: like:
+
+
+and the subject_prefix is [My List] (note the
+ trailing space!), then the message will be received like so:
+
+
+
+ Subject: [My List] This is a message
+
+
+
+If you leave subject_prefix empty, no prefix will be added
+ to the Subject:. Mailman is careful not to add a
+ prefix when the header already has one, as is the case in replies
+ for example. The prefix can also contain characters in the list's
+ preferred language. In this case, because of vagarities of the
+ email standards, you may or may not want to add a trailing space.
+
+
+
+
anonymous_list
+
This variable allows you to turn on some simple anonymizing
+ features of Mailman. When you set this option to Yes,
+ Mailman will remove or replace the From:,
+ Sender:, and Reply-To: fields of any
+ message posted to the list.
+
+
+Note that this option is simply an aid for anonymization, it
+ doesn't guarantee it. For example, a poster's identity could be
+ evident in their signature, or in other mail headers, or even in
+ the style of the content of the message. There's little Mailman
+ can do about this kind of identity leakage.
+
