Re: [Mailman-Users] how long does a installation take normally?

[Martin Wheeler]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Lex Thoonen wrote:

 I'm renting a linux box, fedora with the Apache/2.0.53. (as a
 dedicated server.)

Fair enough.  (You'ld've been better off with Debian, but ... )

 NOW; I looked at installing mailman myself, but rather soon figured I'm
 not linux experienced enough to do this. So I asked the tech people at
 fasthots.co.uk to take a look. They've been busy for a few days,

Wha-a-a-t ?

Fedora is a pig if you want to add any new software, I know -- but that is
just plain ridiculous.
Just WTF are they doing?


 working now and then I guess, and just now I received this e-mail from them:
 . . .
 Now, I would just like to know if this sounds kind of normal to you,
 experienced people. a few hours is quite a bit of money, hence
 my question.

PERSONAL OPINION

It sounds to me very much that you're dealing with a bunch of clueless
commercials -- box resellers who don't know what they're doing and hoping
to get their punters to pay for their own learning curve.

For me, installing mailman is a 5-minute job.  No more.  Actually setting
up a new list usually takes me longer than installing the mailman software
in the first place.

Just my 2p's worth.

[And personally, I'm with bytemark.co.uk]

YMMV.
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[Mailman-Users] Editing incoming mail

[Martin Wheeler]

This question *must* have been asked many times before -- how *does* one 
moderate / edit incoming mail on a mailman list?

(Google searches are not much use -- I must be searching for the wrong 
thing.)

Any pointers *much* appreciated.

[Does one maybe have to stuff everything into a MySQL database and edit 
that?  I just don't know.]

Thanks in advance,
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