[Sysadmin] css-d HTML and our public archive

[Eric A. Meyer]

Thanks, Dean!  Much appreciated.


On 21 Apr 2014, at 21:40, Dean Mah wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We should be running mailman 2.1.12 so I'm not sure what the problem 
> might
> be. I have changed the page on the server though.
>
> Dean
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, John Handelaar <john at userfrenzy.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 21 April 2014 21:17, Eric A. Meyer <eric at meyerweb.com> wrote:
>>> It does contains links to offsite resources (the above, 
>>> specifically) but
>>> only as part of <a href=""> markup.  I'm not referring to offsite
>>> stylesheets or scripts, so far as I'm aware.  You can see the 
>>> results of
>> the
>>> customized HTML by going to
>>> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d, if that helps.
>>>
>>> You guys can't see the markup in the list's database?  Interesting.  
>>> I'd
>>> have thought you were able to do that (speaking as someone who knows
>> next to
>>> nothing about the internals of Mailman, your servers, and the 
>>> security
>>> policies, obviously).
>>
>> Hadn't looked; your mail implied you were trying to replace the file
>> that's there now :)
>>
>> My reading of this is that it's a mailman bug that's subsequently 
>> been
>> fixed in a more recent point release and an interim unpleasant hacky
>> workaround would be to replace both <link>ed stylesheets with inline
>> css -- which is of course daft.
>>
>> Dean/William, do you concur?
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
>> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>>



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