Re: [Mailman-Users] domain update

2008-07-11 Thread Brad Knowles
On 7/11/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a list that has a large number of members whose email domain has changes en mass. In particular, I need to change all of the subscribers @mmode.com to @txt.att.net. Is there a simple way to do this or am I going to have to delete and re-subscribe e

[Mailman-Users] domain update

2008-07-11 Thread rpyne
I am almost sure that I have seen this before, but I couldn't find the answer. I have a list that has a large number of members whose email domain has changes en mass. In particular, I need to change all of the subscribers @mmode.com to @txt.att.net. Is there a simple way to do this or am I go

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderation in mass subscribes, and moderator member list view

2008-07-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael Welch wrote: > >On one of my lists, I want to put some folks, but not others, on moderation as >I invite them. Is there some coding I can add to the end of their entry in the >mass subscribe box or something I am missing? As Brad said, there is no 'one step' way to do this. >Also, I w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stumped on a archive move

2008-07-11 Thread Melinda Gilmore
Thank you all for the response. I was able to fix this with your suggestions. I had run fix_url at one time, but had to run it again after I tweeked some permissions. Thanks again -Original Message- From: Brad Knowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:19 PM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stumped on a archive move

2008-07-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Melinda Gilmore wrote: >If I try to go to the administrative pages and click on list archives, >it goes to a website of http://listservername instead of the >https://listservernamethat it should go to. If you move a list to a new server, you need to run fix_url on the moved list to update the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hard drive is full

2008-07-11 Thread Terri Oda
On 10-Jul-08, at 11:35 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: At 1:19 PM -0400 7/10/08, Simon wrote: This doesn't help you much now, but this is why it is a good idea to keep anything that stores data (mail, temp directories, etc) on a separate partition from your / directory. On that note... is there a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jul 10, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: It's a bit more work to get rid of junk mail but, again, the law says you have to be removed from their list if you ask. And there are some places to sign up to opt out of receiving mass mailings. The problem with this, is the fact tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange problem with one mailman list

2008-07-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brian Carpenter wrote: We are having a problem with one list on this server. It seems whenever the list sends out a welcome message or an unsubscribe notification to a member, it is appending -owner to the e-mail address. It will be something like name-owner at domain.com when it should just be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: 2/ Mailman as a newsletter/announcement list. I can't sponsor the developers (sad but true) but I'd love to see Mailman giving me an option to create either discussion or announcement list wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hard drive is full

2008-07-11 Thread Simon
On 7/10/2008, Bill Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On that note... is there anything to look out for with moving the archives elsewhere? Can they just be moved and a symlink put in their place? Or is it best to define the path in a config file (and if so, which one)? Hmmm, dunno, never

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi all, I have to disagree. Anything that can be done with the Mailman "mass subscribe" feature can be done just as effectively with a contact list on Gmail, in theory.[1] It's other aspects of Gmail policy that (so far at least) make that a small enough problem that I've never considered fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: > I know there are people who use it responsibly, which is why I > don't advocate too strongly for its removal. But that doesn't mean > that it doesn't get abused, or that we shouldn't do things to try > to curb that abuse. I have to disagree. Anything that can be done

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Michael Welch writes: > I think that bulk adding is a dangerous thing to allow, from the > host's viewpoint at a minimum. Who's to say what unscrupulous > a-holes are ready to take advantage of that ability. Very dumb ones. I really don't see a major social problem here; as a host, make your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Larry Stone writes: > Brad, I'm glad you added that. But it raises an interesting topic of > discussion which is why is e-mail held to a different standard than > other means of communication. Because it's different. First, the costs are several orders of magnitude cheaper. Second, identifyi