Re: [Mailman-Users] moderation bit silently turns off on some lists

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael McAndrew wrote: > >Very helpful - thought I'd write back to update you on what I did ... Thanks for the report. >actually, one more small question - the line that >prints the error: should it have >> after the print command? Is that a part >of the python language I'm not familiar with,

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderation bit silently turns off on some lists

2007-10-16 Thread Michael McAndrew
Thanks for this advice, Very helpful - thought I'd write back to update you on what I did ... I incorperated your ideas, especially as regards trying and excepting. I refined my original idea a bit more too ... I decided the safest way to do things was to initially set everyone as moderated, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderation bit silently turns off on some lists

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: > >Presumably this is a withlist script. I would make the following >change, but it may not help: > >@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ >+import sys > from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError > from Mailman import mm_cfg > from os.path import isfile >@@ -7,7 +8,11 @@ > if isfile('vawupdate/scrip

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderation bit silently turns off on some lists

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael McAndrew wrote: > >I operate a number of mailing lists. Some of these lists are announce only >lists. The annouce only lists work by setting everyone's moderation bit to >1 apart from those that have posting permission. This is done >automatically by a script that takes its data from a r

[Mailman-Users] moderation bit silently turns off on some lists

2007-09-16 Thread Michael McAndrew
Hi there, I operate a number of mailing lists. Some of these lists are announce only lists. The annouce only lists work by setting everyone's moderation bit to 1 apart from those that have posting permission. This is done automatically by a script that takes its data from a remote database via