Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread John W Baxter
At 13:38 -0700 6/15/01, Phil Stracchino wrote: >When running majordomo lists, I always had the unsubscribe information >right in the message footer. Would it be so hard to do that with the > ? There are still MUAs in service which do not do the subje

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 11:21 AM, Mark Roedel wrote: > Presumably, we'd also under most circumstances generate a farewell > message when someone was removed from a list. definitely. No black holes. You not only need to confirm the unsubscribe so the user knows the action they took succeede

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:21:58 -0500 Mark Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presumably, we'd also under most circumstances generate a farewell > message when someone was removed from a list. That'd serve the > dual purpose of confirming a successful unsubscribe for someone > who was doing it le

RE: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Roedel
> -Original Message- > From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:04 PM > To: Mark Roedel > Cc: Chuq Von Rospach; Norbert Bollow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without spec

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 09:19 AM, Mark Roedel wrote: > Interesting idea, but I wonder how well it'd work in actual practice. > Do we really want [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be able to act on behalf of anyone > else in that domain? for subscribes? definitely not. For unsubscribes? Sure. The exposu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread Norbert Bollow
> NB> How about this: Put a link "to unsubscribe click here" at the > NB> bottom of every mail you send out. That link has the > NB> subscriber's email address embedded in it, and it leads to a > > The biggest hangup I've had with this approach is that it requires > Mailman to send N

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "NB" == Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I definitely hear what Chuq's saying, and what others have >> asked for quite often. I'm mulling over ways to make >> unsubscribing dead simple both for users to accomplish, and for >> admin's to explain how it's done.

RE: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Roedel
> -Original Message- > From: Norbert Bollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying > passwords > > >> I definitely hear what Chuq&

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-14 Thread Norbert Bollow
> I definitely hear what Chuq's saying, and what others have asked for > quite often. I'm mulling over ways to make unsubscribing dead simple > both for users to accomplish, and for admin's to explain how it's done. How about this: Put a link "to unsubscribe click here" at the bottom of every m

RE: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-14 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "S" == Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It looks like Mailman is designed from the ground up with the >> assumption that passwords will be used. Is that correct? S> Looks that way. Barry? In effect yes. However with MM2.1 users can just about get away with never needin

RE: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-14 Thread Satya
On Jun 14, 2001 at 13:46, Joel Votaw wrote: >Hmmm, the README says that script only currently works with unsubscribe >requests, but does not handle subscribe requests. Is there any way to >subscribe without supplying a password? Hmm. It has always been possible to subscribe without a password.

RE: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords

2001-06-14 Thread Joel Votaw
ubject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying passwords On Jun 13, 2001 at 16:52, Joel Votaw wrote: >I need to allow people to join and use the lists without specifying a >password at all. I've dug through the docs including with the distribution, >archives o