Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Clare Redstone wrote: > >I might exceptionally see if I can edit and resend messages when I think >it's particularly worth it and the sender likely to be flummoxed by being >asked to clean and resend. I'm having trouble following the instructions >though. > >I use Outlook 2007 on Windows XP so don'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Clare Redstone
Thanks for this very helpful reply, Mark. I'm going to follow your advice and mainly aim at training members. I do want to be flexible about this though: some infrequent posters have some very good things to say that will help us all. But they're also probably more likely to be a bit computer-fear

Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Clare Redstone
>>it was Yahoo Group Digest messages... I really like the way these digests work. You can click on a message in the summary at the top and it scrolls down to that message.<< Yes, that was the first thing I noticed, trying out the Mailman digest - that it doesn't do this, so takes a bit longer vie

Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2009-12-29 1:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >> I don't recall where, but I have seen some digest lists that actually >> have Reply/Forward 'links' for each message in the digest in the >> included 'headers' of each individual message in the digest. Using these >> links creates a re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Tanstaafl wrote: > >I don't recall where, but I have seen some digest lists that actually >have Reply/Forward 'links' for each message in the digest in the >included 'headers' of each individual message in the digest. Using these >links creates a reply identical to one that would be generated if th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steff Watkins wrote: >> From: David Southwell [mailto:da...@vizion2000.net]=20 > >> OK guys -- thank you everyone BUT BUT > >> Alias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public" >> >> Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI >>AllowOverride None >>Order allow,deny >> Allow from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread Steff Watkins
> -Original Message- > From: David Southwell [mailto:da...@vizion2000.net] > Sent: 29 December 2009 16:23 > To: mailman-users@python.org > Cc: Mark Sapiro; Steff Watkins > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden > OK guys -- thank you everyone BUT BUT > Alias /pipermail "/u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2009-12-29, Mark Sapiro (m...@msapiro.net) wrote: > Also note that if the members subscribe to the MIME format digest (make > it the default), many MUAs allow opening an individual message from > the digest and replying to it alone. It might be easier to train your > users if they have this abil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread David Southwell
> Steff Watkins wrote: > > I'm guessing that the directory indexing mechanism of Apache is getting > >confused. > > > >The line > > > > ScriptAlias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public" > > > >tells apache that anything with a URI starting with /pipermail is a > >script, so Apache will t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steff Watkins wrote: > > I'm guessing that the directory indexing mechanism of Apache is getting >confused. > >The line > > ScriptAlias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public" > >tells apache that anything with a URI starting with /pipermail is a >script, so Apache will take any call to t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread Steff Watkins
> -Original Message- > From: mailman-users-bounces+s.watkins=nhm.ac...@python.org > [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+s.watkins=nhm.ac...@python.org] > On Behalf Of David Southwell > Sent: 29 December 2009 15:04 > To: mailman-users@python.org > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Southwell wrote: >Thank you in advance for replies. The list is now working fine however access >to the archive is blocked [...] >dns1# pwd >/usr/local/mailman >dns1# ls -l >total 36 >drwxrwsr-x 11 ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Clare Redstone wrote: > >I'm in the process of setting up Mailman for a discussion group of about 100 >members. From past experience, I know some people will prefer to have digest >but they'll also probably just hit the "reply" button without editing the >subject or deleting anything automatically

[Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

2009-12-29 Thread David Southwell
Thank you in advance for replies. The list is now working fine however access to the archive is blocked : From: http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/listinfo/bps_comps_print_announce On line: To see collection of prior postings to the list, visit the clicking link for> bps_comps_print_announce Arc

[Mailman-Users] Replying to digests

2009-12-29 Thread Clare Redstone
Hello, I'm in the process of setting up Mailman for a discussion group of about 100 members. From past experience, I know some people will prefer to have digest but they'll also probably just hit the "reply" button without editing the subject or deleting anything automatically included. I think