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

2006-11-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:19 PM -0700 11/22/06, LuKreme wrote: >> You'd think that after several years of administering Mailman, I'd >> remember stuff like that. > > Why? how often do you restart mailman? Normally, you don't restart it too often. But there are certain times, such as after changing an entry in t

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

2006-11-22 Thread LuKreme
On 21-Nov-2006, at 19:50, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:47 AM -0800 11/21/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: >>> I already tried that. Didn't seem to work. >> >> Did you restart Mailman? Archiving keeps an in-memory template >> cache >> which needs to be refreshed by a restart. > > Crap. No, I didn't rest

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

2006-11-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:19 AM -0800 11/21/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: > However, I see no change on the TOC or monthly index pages. Brad, which > template(s) did you change? The main one is archtocnombox.html, not > archtoc.html which is only used if there is a link to the global mbox > (mm_cfg.PUBLIC_MBOX is True wh

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

2006-11-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:47 AM -0800 11/21/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> I already tried that. Didn't seem to work. > > Did you restart Mailman? Archiving keeps an in-memory template cache > which needs to be refreshed by a restart. Crap. No, I didn't restart. You'd think that after several years of administering

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] 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] 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

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

2006-11-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 18, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > At the page http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html the authors > invite users to just mail to mailman-users@ ('Email Us' - left side, > like every left side ) and only 'suggest' to subscribe

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

2006-11-18 Thread Georg Sauthoff
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:53:08AM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:47 AM +0100 11/17/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > > PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to > > www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? > Uh, no -- please don't. Please see the

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

2006-11-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: >> PPS: Perhaps you could remove the direct link to this list from >> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/lists.html (in the left row) - >> because the list requires subscription. > > The list does

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

2006-11-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:47 AM +0100 11/17/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to > www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? Uh, no -- please don't. Please see the archives for the background on this issue. > PPS: Perhaps you could

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

2006-11-17 Thread Dragon
Georg Sauthoff sent the message below at 02:47 11/17/2006: >PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to >www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? End original message. - There was a rather drawn out, and sometimes h

[Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-17 Thread Georg Sauthoff
Hi, when someone subscribes to my mailman mailinglist I get a subscription request (like I configured it): [..] At your convenience, visit: http://www.etc.example.org/foo/bar [..] Hm, this is not the convenience I imagined. Is it possible to configure mailman in such a way, that the admin is abl