Hi, Brad, I've been silent, uncourteously not thanking you for your helpful message, because I wanted to act on your suggestions before replying.
I have been in touch with the tech staff at PatriotNet(to whom I'm cc-ing this, and they have responded that they are running Debian, with its well-known system of upgrades, security fixes, etc. I run Debian at home, so I know a little about this. On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:08:39PM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:47 PM -0500 11/11/06, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > 1. It often takes two or more repetitions to log on to the > > administrative page. I am always careful about typing my > > password. > > On first blush, this sounds a lot like the problem discussed in FAQ I now can log in without repeating the process. > > 2. When I go to the Membership Management/mass subscription > > page to subscribe a new member, this subscription often does > > not "take". I get a nice screen saying "X is successfully . . . . > My guess is that this is related to issue #1 above, and if you can > get that problem fixed then this one seems that it would be likely to > also go away. I haven't added anyone recently. I'll monitor this. > > 3. Worst of all: I want messages sent by our members to be > > sent also to the member that sent them. This is not at present > > occurring. I have _not_ checked the button in . . . > I'm not sure what to tell you. > > You've checked the two things I know of to check, and yet you're > seeing precisely the kind of behaviour we would expect when these > features are used. I couldn't test this, but a PatriotNet sysadmin checked this; he sent a TEST message, and assures me that he got it back. > One thing that would help is if your ISP was running the latest > version of Mailman -- we're now on version 2.1.9. There have been a Yes. My question, addressed to you, or to any Debian experts here is: using the Debian upgrade/update system, will the improvements of 2.1.9 by now have propagated to the PatriotNet system? Debian puts a big focus on security. But, as I indicated above, it does seem that the system is better now. (However the bottom LH corner of the admin screens still say version 2.1.5 ! ? ) Any comments from you or other experts would be much appreciated. Again, thanks for your help! Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Impeachment proceedings should be started immediately. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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