Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:59 AM -0800 12/6/06, Dragon wrote: > Your old boss obviously has no realistic grasp of the subject. Don't jump to conclusions too quickly. See my other message first. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trend Micro has announced that they will cancel the stop.mail-abuse.org mail forwar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:26 AM -0800 12/6/06, Jon Forrest wrote: > Given that Mailman is written in Python, my naive impression > would be that this should be relatively easy to implement. > (As my old boss Mike Stonebraker used to say, it's just > "a simple matter of software"). Unfortunately, there are people

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM -0600 12/6/06, Patrick Bogen wrote: > The command-line config_list and/or with_list tools have a slightly > higher up-front cost (in terms of work required), but trivialize the > cost-per-list for config updates, for the purpose of applying a single > value across multiple lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Dragon wrote: > As far as I can discern from my limited perusing of source code, it > would be a huge change in architecture. This is true. While a more detailed discussion of this topic belongs on the developers list,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Dragon
Patrick Bogen sent the message below at 08:39 12/6/2006: >On 12/6/06, Jon Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed > > to build it from source and set up a few lists, > > with generous help from this list. > > > > While working through issues relating to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 12/6/06, Jon Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed > to build it from source and set up a few lists, > with generous help from this list. > > While working through issues relating to > creating a standard list configuration, I started > to feel that

[Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Jon Forrest
I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating a standard list configuration, I started to feel that there was a fundamental flaw in the way Mailman lists are config