-ownerRe: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David J Berube wrote: | Hey all, | | If someone wants to call or email me the admin password, I'll go | write a screenscraper to do it automatically. Of course, by the time I got around to reading this, its all done. Thanks for the offer though. -

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread David J Berube
Hey all, If someone wants to call or email me the admin password, I'll go write a screenscraper to do it automatically. Take it easy, -- David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:34:38 -0400 Br

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Scott wrote: |On 10/25/05, Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |>Ed Lawson wrote: |>| Why not just wipe the file clean holding the messages? |> |>Because that will cause the files and the database to get out of sync. |>But I may end up doin

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/25/05, Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed Lawson wrote: > | Why not just wipe the file clean holding the messages? > > Because that will cause the files and the database to get out of sync. > But I may end up doing this. Yah, I suspect it would be easier to shutdown mailman, pu

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Lawson wrote: | On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:34:38 -0400 Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | wrote: | |> Sigh. I can't find a way to purge it in the version of mailman |> used by the gnhlug-org list. | | Why not just wipe the file clean holding the messa

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Ed Lawson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:12:42 -0400 Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just the other day I set it to automatically discard messages that are > from non-subscribers. (privacy options...sender filter IIRC) Great idea. I have several mail lists I run for other organizations so I hav

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Oct 25, 2005, at 07:53, Ed Lawson wrote: It takes a minimum of ten minutes a day to clear the spam. that may not sound like a lot, but it is a chore. I had the same problem with dlslug-discuss. 50 messages a day sometimes. Just the other day I set it to automatically discard messages t

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Ed Lawson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:34:38 -0400 Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh. I can't find a way to purge it in the version of mailman used by > the gnhlug-org list. Why not just wipe the file clean holding the messages? Ed Lawson Who is known to do crazy and careless things.

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Scott wrote: | Hey all, | | I noticed that a few of my recent posts to this list never showed | up. As I have just re-installed my entire system, this didn't | surprise me. I decided to first check the Mailman admin interface, | to see if maybe

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Lawson wrote: | Ben Scott wrote: | |> When I tried to check the queue for the gnhlug-org@ list, |> though, I discovered that it has over 1800 messages waiting, dating |> back to April. It takes several minutes for Firefox to load and |> render th

Re: Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-25 Thread Ed Lawson
Ben Scott wrote: When I tried to check the queue for the gnhlug-org@ list, though, I discovered that it has over 1800 messages waiting, dating back to April. It takes several minutes for Firefox to load and render this page on my computer, and even then it gets truncated, so I recommend you don

Purge mailman queues?

2005-10-24 Thread Ben Scott
Hey all, I noticed that a few of my recent posts to this list never showed up. As I have just re-installed my entire system, this didn't surprise me. I decided to first check the Mailman admin interface, to see if maybe my messages were being held due to bad headers or some such. When I tried