Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spamsubscriptionrequest

2013-08-01 Thread Chuck Peters
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark Sapiro writes: > > > The asking of a question which requires an "obvious to a human but > > extremely difficult to a machine" answer is probably the best > > defence as long as the questions and answers aren't fixed over many >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail

2013-05-06 Thread Chuck Peters
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:33:31AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > All of the registration > > procedures are different, > > They used to be quite hidden, but I seem to be able to find them quite > easily, when I need to, these days.

[Mailman-Users] Blocked By Earthlink

2011-06-19 Thread Chuck Peters
According to earthlink our newsletter "may be re-added in the future should the server be discovered to again be open for relay". Just one big problem with that statement, we have never been an open relay! We use mailman for our StarryMessenger.net newsletter and send it out from starrymessen...@

[Mailman-Users] ubuntu security update broken

2008-03-15 Thread Chuck Peters
# /var/lib/mailman/bin/update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 51, in from Mailman import MailList File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 64, in from Mailman import Gui File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/__init__.py", line 21, in

[Mailman-Users] minimizing spam addresses on web site

2008-03-10 Thread Chuck Peters
A couple days ago I saw a post on the dev list about backscatter spam and also found a thread about someone's attempt at changing the -owner address, that didn't appear to be successful. That and the further problem newly created address for the mailman-owner getting 200 spam a day tells me I need

[Mailman-Users] Can one use EC2 for bandwidth spikes?

2007-11-04 Thread Chuck Peters
We have a newsletter with 1500+ subscribers which is currently hosted on my friends house. He has DSL and the connection goes to crap for 5-15 minutes every time we send one out, other than that it works fine. When I looked at some of the low cost hosting options none of them seem to be good beca

[Mailman-Users] notices of subscribes and unsubscribes

2002-12-26 Thread Chuck Peters
m with new installs or upgrades of the 2.0.x mailman. Any suggestions how to fix this? Thanks, Chuck -- Chuck Peters, Systems Administrator, Network Engineer and Linux Tech. StarrySkies Network, http://StarrySkies.com, publishing science articles since 1995. http://StarrySkies.Net, an onli

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: upgrade problem

2002-12-25 Thread Chuck Peters
osixpath.py", line 287, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/posixpath.py", line 279, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "bin/check_perms", line 123, in checkwalk os.chmod(path, mode | targetperms) OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: &#x

[Mailman-Users] The moderation/SPAM queue

2002-05-10 Thread Chuck Peters
I am sure many of you are spending some time moderating lists where most of the moderation is SPAM. A couple lists ar getting more spam than legitimate traffic and its a real pain to clean this up via the web interface. If their an effecient way to clean out this spam rather than scrolling thro

[Mailman-Users] Customization template postheld.txt per list?

2002-01-21 Thread Chuck Peters
How would I customize postheld.txt per list? Thanks, Chuck -- Chuck Peters Systems Administrator and Linux Tech serving Chester County InterLink, http://www.ccil.org, Starry Skies, http://StarrySkies.com http://EverydayLinux.com and many other non-profit and community groups of Chester