[Mailman-Users] mail subscription

2004-04-04 Thread d-s
How do i do a list in wich the mail subscription is done by a email with the subject subscribe and the unsubscribe with the subject unsubscribe? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] Global hide/unide list members

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
A list-owner: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004- March/035696.html asked me for help with retrieving a list of subscribers of his lists. What I found on his lists was this option ticked: "Conceal the member's address" in the "Default options for new members joining this list.". Ho

[Mailman-Users] Congrats to Mailman team...

2004-04-04 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
March Project of the Month: Mailman - Collaboration on the Internet has a single 'killer app', the mailing list. SourceForge.net itself hosts over 35,000 mailing lists that allow people to communicate via email all around the world. How does SF.net man

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> No. The critical point is "large enough". If their need is large > enough they either will themselves, or will arrange for someone else to > as their proxy. I don't think so. If they ask for that on the list, that already means that their need is large enough. List-owners needn't to know any

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Guys -- Can we please drop this? It's been beaten into the ground. I don't think the mailman development crew has shown itself well here, either, especially Brad, who seems to be grumpy beyond the needs of the discussion for some reason. I don't think we as a team managing an open source proje

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> I don't. I assume that everyone can learn python should their > interest/need for a particular feature be large enough. After all, Bad assumption. Time is not from rubber, your advice might be good for computer science students, but might not be for others. I suggest you never say again to so

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> If you want something done, and there isn't anyone who has the time, > skills or inclination to do it for you, then you either knuckle down and And how could I know that there isn't anyone, huh? > do it yourself, or forget about it. You don't keep hounding someone else > to do it. You are

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote: To whom you address these questions? Why do you assume that everyone knows Python? I assist Mailman community as I can, i.e. by giving my advice and my ideas how things could be improved. So you'd rather tell people what to do, rather than do it yourself, because you m

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> > To whom you address these questions? > > Why do you assume that everyone knows Python? > > I assist Mailman community as I can, i.e. by giving my advice and my > > ideas how things could be improved. > > So you'd rather tell people what to do, rather than do it yourself, > because you might

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote: Past an early point an easy distinguishing factor is: Are you interested in it enough to write a patch? Are you interested in it enough to maintain a patch? To whom you address these questions? Why do you assume that everyone knows Python? I assist Mailman communit

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> Past an early point an easy distinguishing factor is: > > Are you interested in it enough to write a patch? > > Are you interested in it enough to maintain a patch? To whom you address these questions? Why do you assume that everyone knows Python? I assist Mailman community as I can, i.e.

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> At 2:41 PM +0200 2004/04/04, Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote: > > > I know, but I shouldn't be condemned for recommending such features. And > > it seems that I was just for daring to compare it to ecarits. > > As I said, this is a slippery slope. Once you start down the > path of "But prog

[Mailman-Users] Problems With Mailman and Exim

2004-04-04 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Mailman and Exim aren't playing nice. Something about mailman is causing Exim to not properly bind to port 25. Any idea's? -- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. http://joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org Political Activist Extraordinaire Peace, Life, Liberty "The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stav

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:41 PM +0200 2004/04/04, Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote: I know, but I shouldn't be condemned for recommending such features. And it seems that I was just for daring to compare it to ecarits. As I said, this is a slippery slope. Once you start down the path of "But program XYZZY does this, why

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrzej Kasperowicz
> As I told you in private e-mail, I'm not interested in whatever > he might have to say. I've been in this business long enough to know > what the capabilities are of the various types of programs, and > there's nothing he could possibly say that could change my mind. But there is a lot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:15 AM +0200 2004/04/04, Thomas Hochstein wrote: | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at | your option) any lat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Brad Knowles schrieb: > But asking someone to re-create a commercial product and then > give that away for free, well that's quite a different matter. If you're referring to ecartis - last time I looked at it, it said: | Ecartis - Modular Mailing List Manager is Copyright ©1998-2002 by |