On 12/8/05 6:12 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Williams wrote: >> >> 1). A user added a large number of subscribers by uploading >> an Excel spreadsheet. Mailman accepted the file and >> addresses appeared reasonable when viewed with IE but >> not so good with mozilla (each alpha char was followed by >> a box). I was able to remove the names using the >> remove_members command by removing all members. >> >> It seems that it might be a good check when importing a >> list of users, for mailman to make sure it is a text file >> so users don't mess things up inadvertantly. > > > What Mailman version is this? Current Mailman (2.1.6) is pretty good > about weeding out addresses with non-printable ascii characters. In > particular, it won't accept whatever characters were displaying as a > 'box'. Is Excel perhaps producing UTF-16? > > >> 2). The second problem that developed is that the user has >> set notification on subscribing to yes and so she and >> her boss bere getting several thousand emails. >> I finally had to completely delete the list. >> Is there a better way to tell mailman to stop sending email >> from a specific list? If that is possible, I have not >> bumped into an explanation how mailman works so I would >> be able to stop it sending emails. > > > Mass subscribe allows subscribing with or without notifications > regardless of list settings. This is very much repairing the barn door after the horse is stolen, but for such mass subscribes from previously-untested data, sending through a sample of 10 or so addresses first isn't a bad idea. --John (cheering from the sidelines) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
