Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 19, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > If you haven't started rebuilding the archives yet, I suggest you > don't > do it. Not only will it invalidate all the links in the FAQ which can > be changed with some effort, it will also invalida

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 19, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: > This might very well work. But speaking only for myself, I would > not be interested in being on the mailman-help list. I don't blame you ;). If anybody else is interested in seeing a mailman-h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-19 Thread John A. Martin
> "Brad" == Brad Knowles > "Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5" > Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:52:50 -0600 Brad> What really needs to happen is the Debian guys need to get Brad> 2.1.9 and "Debian-ize" that codebase, and then ship that out Brad> to all their custome

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with delivery -- & gmail

2006-11-19 Thread Alan McConnell
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:49PM -0800, Dragon wrote: > . . . . > >your INBOX. I see a fair number of complaints on one of the mailing > >lists I subscribe to that has a lot of gmail users on it about gmail's > >general disregard for the existence of mailing lists and the whole > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] List admin controling member list thru email

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alan McConnell wrote: > Let me add my humble voice to endorse Mr Mahesh's ideas. I'd > like to be able to approve/disapprove member joining, and > unknown people posting, as well. You can currently approve/discard held posts by email. If admin_immed_notify is Yes, the notific

Re: [Mailman-Users] List admin controling member list thru email

2006-11-19 Thread Alan McConnell
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:01:50AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > BG Mahesh wrote: > > > >We are using Mailman 2.1.9. I want the admin of the list to be able to do > >the following by sending emails and not visiting the admin section (web) > > > >- Add/delete member(s) > >- Delete "all" members of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] List admin controling member list thru email

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
BG Mahesh wrote: > >We are using Mailman 2.1.9. I want the admin of the list to be able to do >the following by sending emails and not visiting the admin section (web) > >- Add/delete member(s) >- Delete "all" members of the list >- Add a bunch of users to the list This is something that would ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: > >I took another look at this page, it looks like we should be able to >update the links by editing the templates from which the HTML files >are built. I've done that, and I'm in the process of completely >re-generating the entire archive for mailman-users going back to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:44 AM -0600 11/19/06, Brad Knowles wrote: >> And sure you link to the searchable mail archive from the faq and >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users, but not from >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ (which is the first >> place if I look for the searc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:57 AM -0500 11/18/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Would this work for us? The Python community is much larger than the > Mailman community, so has a larger pool of volunteers to draw from. > A competing concern is that our Mailman experts like Mark, Brad, and > everyone else here on mailman-us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:20 AM -0500 11/18/06, Alan McConnell wrote: > Now here is an "ignoramus" question, from one who knoweth not Python: > If mailman is "powered by Python", why is not an upgrade from mailman > 2.1.5 to, say, 2.1.9, accomplished by simply grabbin the new python > scripts(hey, they are simply

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:48 PM +0100 11/18/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > (the take, take, take and leaching arguments are IMO a bit far fetched. Basically, it comes down to a matter of trust. The Gmane folks say that they operate by certain rules, and then we have multiple instances where they fail to operate by t