[SAC] html in mailing list descriptions

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11-05-10 05:43 PM, Hamish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> earlier html codes worked in the mailing list description text*
> (general prefs), and the help there indicates that it should still
> do so. But now if you edit that field the control characters get
> sanitized into<a href=&quote;....&quote;> and the html
> doesn't get parsed**. Each subsequent change to any of the general
> prefs means< becomes< ->  < ->
> < ->  ... it gets ugly fast.
>
> any ideas for a fix? regression in the new version of mailman?
>
> (see "About" at top:)
> *  http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
> ** http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo-announce

Hamish,

I encountered the same problem and the only way I found to get around it
was to update the description field using mailman command level commands.
I think I dumped the stuff to some sort of text file, edited that and
reapplied it.

Best regards,
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