Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-04 Thread Amos Glenn
Stephen wins the cupie doll. The low-tech route was successful. "Unresponsive" turned to "very responsive with stunningly short turn around time" when the issue of spam was brought up in connection to various authorities (not the cops, though). Someone was spooked. Really, though, it's too bad; I w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/03/2008 12:35 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: There are a couple of techy ways you could do this: - Point the hosts file at the relevant IP address of the web server you use to manage the domain/Mailman setup, then point a web browser at it. It should work locally. - If you have a local DNS

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Andrew Hodgson
Amos Glenn wrote: >But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone >else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list >admin website to turn the list off. There are a couple of techy ways you could do this: - Point the hosts file at the relevan

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Brad Knowles
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Access the web admin interface using the IP address of the server > rather than the domain name in the host part of the URL. Will that actually work in a virtual hosting environment? Depends on how the virtual hosting environment was set up. If they gave you a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: > Amos Glenn wrote: > > > >But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone > >else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list > >admin website to turn the list off. > > Access the web admin interface using the IP addr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Jan Steinman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd start slamming the list with thousands of messages (yea, I know, unkind to the hapless subscribers) in the hope that all the bounces and admin backscatter will spur the new domain owner into action. Before everyone starts jumping all over me for wr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Jan Steinman
From: "Amos Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... the group let the domain name lapse and someone else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list admin website to turn the list off. I contacted the web host and they were "unresponsive." Don't get me started on this topi

[Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Amos Glenn writes: > But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone > else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list > admin website to turn the list off. > > I contacted the web host and they were "unresponsive." What do you mean by "

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Amos Glenn wrote: > >But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone >else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list >admin website to turn the list off. Access the web admin interface using the IP address of the server rather than the domain

[Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Amos Glenn
Hi everyone- I couldn't find an answer to this question in any of my searches, so I'm asking the list. I feel pretty stupid making the assumptions I did to get myself into this mess, but here it goes: Some time ago, I was asked to administer a mailing list for a group under their domain name. When