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Hello guys,
my situation is the following:
Sympa is running at my university. 
I am not the person who installed it and who is administering it and it´s
extremely hard to get a hold of this person.
Nevertheless I would like to do a research on how to optimize the 
look & feel of www-Sympa for my purposes. For example I would like to modify 
the
appearance of the visual frame that appears when you are logged in over www, 
which I believe consists of the templates 'title.tpl',
'list_menu.tpl' and 'menu.tpl'.
First question: am I right with that assumption?
Second: are these templates being included in another file, so that modifying
this one file would do the job? Or do I have to modify all three templates? 
Is it possible to change color, etc. of what I call the 'frame' at all?
I have read faqs and documentations and everything, but I don´t really find 
the 
answer.
Greetings,
Chris