I agree, I am subscribed to countless lists over 6 organizations that use mailman one of which I run, there is no way I would want to receive a reminder from each list, it's painful enough now for each organization.
-Bob On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Mark Sapiro<m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Charles Gregory wrote: >> >>Is there NO way to get a reminder notice to come FROM the >>list/list-owner, even given the obvious issue with possible multiple >>lists? > > > It's a simple change. Just send one reminder per list. > > But I for one for example receive a reminder every Mailman Day from > python.org covering 11 lists. I don't want to receive 11 separate > reminders. > > Given that periodic password reminders are going away in Mailman 3 > anyway, I don't see an urgent need to "fix" this. > > >>I know how mailman works, but these people DON'T. Could there at >>least be an 'overview' function that recognizes mail sent to >>'mailman-request' and gives them a list of commands to manage each list? > > > If you look carefully at the message you received and quoted, you will > see that the user first sent two 'help' commands to > mailman-requ...@hwcn.org, and then replied to the response saying that > it couldn't be understood. Perhaps I lack imagination, but I don't > know what I'd put in "a list of commands to manage each list" that > wouldn't be essentially what's in the response to a 'help' command, so > I don't think that would help in this case. > > I could change the response to a 'help' command to be From: > 'list-owner' instead of 'list-bounces', and I think I will. I suspect > it's being From: list-bounces is an artifact from Mailman 2.0 when it > was From: list-admin. But, I don't see that helping in your example. > It would only remove the 'unrecognized bounce' packaging from the > message which would still go to you as owner. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/bobfishel%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9