[TriLUG] Mailman question

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:33, Dave Sorenson wrote:
> I've googled, but am coming up blank. I think this CAN be done, but I'm 
> not finding out any clues as to HOW to do it. (Of course I could be 
> wrong...)
> 
>  Any help, even "you can't do that" would be appreciated.
> 
> Problem: I have a mailman list for one of my staff that has more than 30 
> members. Under the membership management> membership list  section 
> Mailman is reverting to the alphabetical listing. List admin does not 
> like this and wants Mailman to list all members like he thinks his other 
> lists with fewer people do. How do I override this setting?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Dave

I did a grep on admin.py in Mailman and this popped out:
Maybe you could simply changed the number in "cols=30"

 table.AddRow([Label(_('Description:')),
                          TextArea(desctag, text=desc,
                                   rows=4, cols=30, wrap='soft')])

Good Luck - Jon
BTW: I think your last email is best - let him live with it.