RE: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-18 Thread Nancy S
Jon wrote: >I don't think anyone on Mailman-dev wants to encourage the bad practice >of allowing folks to be subscribed without their approval (except by the >list admin), so don't look for this feature to be changed in MMv3. This may be slightly off this particular topic, but I run several mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Steven Massey schrieb: > Thanks for the response. I would tend to agree with you, but this > client is particularly insistent on setting it up this way. Did you counsel him and explain to him, *why* that is a really *very* bad idea? > Perhaps > people on the list could help me by providing so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-17 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:45, Jamie Penman-Smithson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:12, Steven Massey wrote: > > Jon, > > > > Thanks for the response. I would tend to agree with you, but this > > client is particularly insistent on setting it up this way. Perhaps > > people on the list could

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-17 Thread Jamie Penman-Smithson
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:12, Steven Massey wrote: > Jon, > > Thanks for the response. I would tend to agree with you, but this > client is particularly insistent on setting it up this way. Perhaps > people on the list could help me by providing some fodder to argue why > there should be a con

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-17 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Steven Massey wrote: Jon, Thanks for the response. I would tend to agree with you, but this client is particularly insistent on setting it up this way. Perhaps people on the list could help me by providing some fodder to argue why there should be a confirmation e-mail. I've tried saying tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-17 Thread Steven Massey
Jon, Thanks for the response. I would tend to agree with you, but this client is particularly insistent on setting it up this way. Perhaps people on the list could help me by providing some fodder to argue why there should be a confirmation e-mail. I've tried saying that people could be mal

RE: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-17 Thread Jon Carnes
Folks get around this by writing their own web-page for subscriptions (and email address/script). They feed the addresses into a command line script. The command line script allows additions without confirmations. You can also hack the code to allow this. I don't think anyone on Mailman-dev wan

RE: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail

2004-03-17 Thread David Massey
Steven, I'm still using 2.0.8; not sure how this works in later versions. In 2.0.8, the settings for confirmation & approval are contained on the privacy options page. You can require confirmation, or approval, or both. There is no option for neither. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL