Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe blunder
* Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.org: This is more of a list management question than a Mailman question, but I need your collective wisdom I just did a mass Subscribe (288 address) for a list where I had intended to do a mass Invite. You can retrieve the addresses from the mailman subscribe (sp?) log. That way you could either unsubscribe them OR create a temporary list telling the you meant to invite them but fubared the whole thing. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de -- 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
[Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe blunder
This is more of a list management question than a Mailman question, but I need your collective wisdom I just did a mass Subscribe (288 address) for a list where I had intended to do a mass Invite. The addresses come from a sign up sheet specifically for this list, but the combination of some not very legible addresses along with the potential for typos (I typed them all in) mean that will almost certainly be a handful of addresses subscribed that have no interest in the Wilson Middle School PTA Newsletter (Plano, TX). Obviously this was a situation where an Invite was what was needed. I had just overlooked the radio button for this. I'm hopeful that I will be able to explain and apologize to anyone who complains to me, but I fear that I won't have that opportunity and will get blocked by the likes of AoL right off the bat. Any advice is welcome. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe blunder
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:51:45PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I just did a mass Subscribe (288 address) for a list where I had intended to do a mass Invite. [...] I'm hopeful that I will be able to explain and apologize to anyone who complains to me, but I fear that I won't have that opportunity and will get blocked by the likes of AoL right off the bat. Any advice is welcome. Be pre-emptive/pro-active and mail the people you sub'd explaining that you meant to invite them to join the list, but human error caused them to be subscribed; that the list is low-traffic/announcements from the school only (or whatever). Provide a link to *their* options page, along with something like: I understand if you want to unsubscribe -- you can so do via http://foo.example.org/mailman/options/emailaddy (It's the sort of thing I'd grep the subscribe log for, and then let some perl/bash mail each person, giving them their customized URIs.) If you didn't send a welcome message, a slightly cheeky option is to unsub (without notification), and invite the folks. (Still, it's a lot better than sending a reply about privacy policy to a complete list of a few k subscribers, rather than the individual you thought you were sending it to: there's a reason my external lists are set to require all posts to be approved, even those from staff.) -- ``A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.'' (Mitch Ratcliffe, in `Technology Review', 1992) -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe blunder
Adam McGreggor wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:51:45PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I just did a mass Subscribe (288 address) for a list where I had intended to do a mass Invite. [...] I'm hopeful that I will be able to explain and apologize to anyone who complains to me, but I fear that I won't have that opportunity and will get blocked by the likes of AoL right off the bat. Any advice is welcome. [...] If you didn't send a welcome message, a slightly cheeky option is to unsub (without notification), and invite the folks. OTOH, if you did send a welcome, check Mailman's bounce log for bounces and delete those addresses from the list. If you don't repeatedly mail to non-existent or spam-trap addresses at the large ISPs, they probably won't block you unless they get multiple complaints. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter 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/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe blunder
On Sep 1, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Adam McGreggor wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:51:45PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I just did a mass Subscribe (288 address) for a list where I had intended to do a mass Invite. If you didn't send a welcome message, a slightly cheeky option is to unsub (without notification), and invite the folks. OTOH, if you did send a welcome, check Mailman's bounce log for bounces and delete those addresses from the list. Thank you! That is extremely obvious once you point it out, but since I've never run a list with unconfirmed addresses before that had completely slipped my mind. As it turns out, 31 out of 288 addresses were bouncing. So the transcription error rate was much worse than I'd anticipated. Cheers, -j -- 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
