Re: [Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm.of Approval)

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark T. Valites wrote: >On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Why not either add her as a member with delivery off or add her to the >> filter of non-members allowed to post? > >I try to stay out of the visible path of my list moderators. While I'm >sure most of them would be receptive to t

Re: [Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)

2004-08-26 Thread Jeff Barger
On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Mark T. Valites wrote: The department that is responsible for the list is leary of making all the members of the list digest members, in case an important message needs to be sent immeadiately. Even though we have a non-digested emergency "911" list synchronized wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest,Confirm. of Approval)

2004-08-26 Thread Mark T. Valites
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Why not either add her as a member with delivery off or add her to the > filter of non-members allowed to post? I try to stay out of the visible path of my list moderators. While I'm sure most of them would be receptive to the change, I'm sure some would

Re: [Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)

2004-08-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark T. Valites wrote: >... > >The head of our department periodically sends out email to mailing lists >for each of our residence halls on campus. All the lists are set up to >hold messages from non-list members. Not being a list member, she can't >tell if/when the message has been approved. Is th

[Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)

2004-08-26 Thread Mark T. Valites
The items below have come up lately as things we'd like to be able to do with our mailman setup. I'm open to any alternative suggestions, hacks or comments... One of my biggest mailman lists is used to broadcast messages to our entire student body. The list contains approximately ~5500 non-digest

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-14 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 8/14/02 12:55 PM, "John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never use those "forward to a friend" (or soon to be former friend) > things, and cringe when friends aim them at me. I'm too lazy to look into > privacy policies deeply enough to know what's going to happen to the > addresses a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-14 Thread John W Baxter
At 8:17 -0700 8/13/2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >On 8/13/02 1:29 AM, "Nigel Metheringham" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So "Wile E Spammer" of "Evil Spammers Incorporated" writes a little >> script that does an invite subscribe of a few hundred throusand of his >> "friends" with an invitation

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 8/13/02 1:29 AM, "Nigel Metheringham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So "Wile E Spammer" of "Evil Spammers Incorporated" writes a little > script that does an invite subscribe of a few hundred throusand of his > "friends" with an invitation note of whatever crap he is sending out > this week. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:34:12 -0400 Rajesh Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last of all I have a general question which I do not see addressed in > the FAQ - how is a request like this handled and is there any feedback > so I can tell if this request is going anywhere anytime soon? This is Open

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-13 Thread Tom Whiting
Wooh, hey, yeah, sounds wonderful.. just tell me one thing.. Who's gonna be held responsible? heh On Tuesday 13 August 2002 03:29 am, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:57, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > > Very, very good idea, actually. I certainly know my friends and coworkers >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:57, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > Very, very good idea, actually. I certainly know my friends and coworkers well > enough that I wouldn't sign them up for somthing that they wouldn't enjoy or > benefit from. To join relative strangers to the list is obviously a bad idea. But

[Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread Rajesh Patel
Dear Sir   I hope this is going to the right place. I would like to request the following two features:   (1) On subscription, the email sent out requires the user to ACTIVATE the mailing request before they actually get added to the list. This is to address an issue where people are sometime

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 8/12/02 3:57 PM, "G. Armour Van Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But > if the confirmation message included a note *from me*, whom they know, and > then > offered them the chance to ignore the message and not subscribe, or to reply > to be > subscribed, this would be a good process. No, ba

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Tom Whiting wrote: > > (2) A feature that allows a user to register someone else (a friend) with > > an Introduction ADDED to the subscription email that is sent. So I could > > subscribe a friend and add a personal messge so they know I sent this to > > them ... > VERY VERY not good idea (though

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "RP" == Rajesh Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RP> Last of all I have a general question which I do not see RP> addressed in the FAQ - how is a request like this handled and RP> is there any feedback so I can tell if this request is going RP> anywhere anytime soon? Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread Tom Whiting
> (1) On subscription, the email sent out requires the user to ACTIVATE the > mailing request before they actually get added to the list. This is to > address an issue where people are sometimes registered without their > consent! If you'll go into the mailing list options, I believe there is a se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Kind request: Do not post in HTML. -- Rajesh Patel wrote: > (1) On subscription, the email sent out requires the user to ACTIVATE the > mailing request before they actually get added to the list. This is to > address an issue where people are sometimes registered without their cons