[Mailman-Users] List admin controling member list thru email

2006-11-18 Thread BG Mahesh
hi We are using Mailman 2.1.9. I want the admin of the list to be able to do the following by sending emails and not visiting the admin section (web) - Add/delete member(s) - Delete "all" members of the list - Add a bunch of users to the list This is not for spamming. This is for a particular cl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unadverti*** lists

2006-11-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phil usps wrote: >I understand how to make a list not show up on the mailing list overview >page by setting the privacy option-- Advertise this list to NO. However, I >do not understand why this causes the list to no longer show up on the Admin >Links page. As Site administrator, I want to easily

[Mailman-Users] Unadverti*** lists

2006-11-18 Thread Phil usps
I understand how to make a list not show up on the mailing list overview page by setting the privacy option-- Advertise this list to NO. However, I do not understand why this causes the list to no longer show up on the Admin Links page. As Site administrator, I want to easily see all the lists. Ho

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alan McConnell wrote: > >Now here is an "ignoramus" question, from one who knoweth not Python: >If mailman is "powered by Python", why is not an upgrade from mailman >2.1.5 to, say, 2.1.9, accomplished by simply grabbin the new python >scripts(hey, they are simply text files, right?) and dropping t

Re: [Mailman-Users] suppression of recipient list?

2006-11-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Glen Page wrote: > >I have Mailman ver. 2.1.9 up and running successfully. All the lists >seem to be working fine with one "small" but potentially "big" flaw. >On all of my lists, when a message is sent to the list, the message >received by the list members has the entire list of members in the

[Mailman-Users] suppression of recipient list?

2006-11-18 Thread Glen Page
I have read the FAQs and searched both the FAQs and the archives and can't find an answer so I am posting it here to see if anyone else has seen this problem and/or knows a solution. I have Mailman ver. 2.1.9 up and running successfully. All the lists seem to be working fine with one "small"

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 18, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > At the page http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html the authors > invite users to just mail to mailman-users@ ('Email Us' - left side, > like every left side ) and only 'suggest' to subscribe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-18 Thread Alan McConnell
First of all, thanks to Stephen and Brad for their illuminating and informative replies! On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:04:43PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Brad Knowles writes: > . . . . . > That seems likely, as the current stable version of Debian ("sarge") > is distributed with 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: > >> One thing that would help is if your ISP was running the latest > >> version of Mailman -- we're now on version 2.1.9. There have been a > At 3:10 PM -0500 11/17/06, Alan McConnell wrote: > >Yes. My question, addressed to you, or to any Debian > >expert

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-18 Thread Georg Sauthoff
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:53:08AM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:47 AM +0100 11/17/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > > PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to > > www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? > Uh, no -- please don't. Please see the