Re: [Mailman-Developers] ANNOUNCING: GNU Mailman 3.0

2015-04-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
Barry, Congratulations, you mail d(a)emon, you! And all the other responsible d(a)emons. Has it really been 20 years since the NIST workshop? Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

2010-04-06 Thread skip
ecause you have to create and populate a mailing list. How do people generally go about doing that? Do you just create a bunch of dummy aliases which map to a single address? Skip (*) In the Apocryphal Bible we find these extra two verses: Genesis 2 ... 4 And on the 29th, 30th and 31st

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

2010-04-05 Thread skip
In fact, it is quite easy to argue that with a programmatic interface and access to cron my "spread out the pain" request is better implemented there. The monthly mailing becomes a daily mailing which only sends reminder notices to a fracti

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

2010-04-05 Thread skip
s MM3 far enough along to be running somewhere that one could experiment? Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searc

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

2010-04-02 Thread skip
ve shell access to their lists. I hope I didn't open a can of worms. MM2 doesn't seem to have a through-the-web way to gather all list members from the admin's web interface. Will MM3? That would at least allow admins to assemble a list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

2010-04-01 Thread skip
addresses? Again, this may already be accounted for somehow. If so, I'd be happy to learn how you do it without attempting to send email to an address then process the bounces. Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Dev

[Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

2010-04-01 Thread skip
onth, at least across mailing lists but ideally within mailing lists. Notification day for any given email might be ord(email[0]) % 28 + 1 This would be close enough for gummint work (the 29th, 30th and 31st would be declared to be postmaster holidays). -- Skip Montanaro - s...@po

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feature request for Mailman 3: Ability to perform all admin functions from gmail

2010-03-29 Thread skip
than wading through Mailman message-by-message. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Proposed: remove address-obfuscation code fromMailman 3

2009-08-25 Thread skip
it a per-list flag which admins could disable if they wanted. The other thing about Mailman's obfuscation is that I sorta think that by now the spammers have figured it out. I mean, "skip at pobox.com"? Come on. Even Barry stands a good chance of writing a regular expression that ca

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Searchable archives for MM

2009-08-07 Thread skip
s a better job than I ever could. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ Getting old sucks, but it beats dying young ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mail

Re: [Mailman-Developers] monthly password reminder bounce reaction

2009-06-03 Thread skip
ages I have to wade through is huge around the first of the month because of bouncing reminders. Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.or

[Mailman-Developers] Mailman+SpamBayes for Mailman 2.2

2009-04-07 Thread skip
you need some help, contact me offline or send email to spamba...@python.org. Cheers, -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ "XML sucks, dictionaries rock" - Dave Beazley ___ Mailman-Developers mailing

[Mailman-Developers] (no subject)

2009-04-07 Thread skip
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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Sprint on Mailman/SpamBayes integration at PyCon?

2009-03-23 Thread skip
Barry> Hi Skip. I'll be sprinting and yes, I would like to help you out Barry> with this. That's good to hear. I will only be sprinting for two days of the four. If you let me know when you'll be focusing on this stuff I will pl

[Mailman-Developers] Sprint on Mailman/SpamBayes integration at PyCon?

2009-03-20 Thread skip
SpamBayes. (SpamBayes is invoked on mail.python.org long before mail messages get to Mailman.) So, would anyone be interested in at least being a subject matter expert on the Mailman site of things? -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt about security

2009-01-05 Thread skip
a sophisticated Mailman user and wasn't aware of the cgi-bin/create script. Does Mailman run on Windows? If so, you're going to have problems. If not, then you are going to have people unfamiliar with Unix systems (that is, people who only know Windows) installing it.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt about security

2009-01-05 Thread skip
t its permissions to not allow execution and add a note to the installation docs about the consequences of through-the-web list creation and how to set it up. Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org

[Mailman-Developers] SpamBayes for gate_news - who can test?

2008-11-28 Thread skip
m mail.python.org so you can construct a useful database for SpamBayes to score messages against. (You could run with an empty training database but that would just cause all messages to score as "unsure" and be held as possible spam.) -- Skip Montanaro

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Admins not getting admin messages

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
= 0 (I thought I was running 2.1.2, but apparently not.) Maybe I just need to upgrade. Let me try this first before you spend anymore time thinking about it. Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Admins not getting admin messages

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
ons and such. That's already set to Yes... :-/ Skip ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org

[Mailman-Developers] Admins not getting admin messages

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
seems to go to all three of us. What I don't understand is what the cedu-admin address is for and where the admin messages are going. It seems clear that I missed something during the 2.0->2.1 upgrade, but I'm at a loss to see what. Any guid

[Mailman-Developers] Mailman/SpamBayes integration?

2003-10-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
ider taking a look at the problem on my own, but I've never even peeked at the Mailman code and don't have any idea where to plug SpamBayes into it. I do know the SpamBayes code to a certain degree and would be happy to work with someone who is familiar with the guts of Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Trivial mm wording nit

2003-09-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
ed message was automatically discarded. Dan> I don't agree. Why is the latter more correct? "was" connotes that an action happened in the past and is over and done with. "has been" connotes that the action was started, but might not have completed. Skip ___

[Mailman-Developers] Trivial mm wording nit

2003-09-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
I know this is anal, but it bugs me every time Mailman discards a message then sends me a note with this text: The attached message has been automatically discarded. It should be The attached message was automatically discarded. FYI. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi