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

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:48 PM +0100 11/18/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: (the take, take, take and leaching arguments are IMO a bit far fetched. Basically, it comes down to a matter of trust. The Gmane folks say that they operate by certain rules, and then we have multiple instances where they fail to operate by

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:20 AM -0500 11/18/06, 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

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

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:57 AM -0500 11/18/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: Would this work for us? The Python community is much larger than the Mailman community, so has a larger pool of volunteers to draw from. A competing concern is that our Mailman experts like Mark, Brad, and everyone else here on mailman-users

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

2006-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:44 AM -0600 11/19/06, Brad Knowles wrote: And sure you link to the searchable mail archive from the faq and http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users, but not from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ (which is the first place if I look for the searchable

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

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: I took another look at this page, it looks like we should be able to update the links by editing the templates from which the HTML files are built. I've done that, and I'm in the process of completely re-generating the entire archive for mailman-users going back to the

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

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
BG Mahesh wrote: 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 something that would have to be

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

2006-11-19 Thread Alan McConnell
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:01:50AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: BG Mahesh wrote: 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

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

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alan McConnell wrote: Let me add my humble voice to endorse Mr Mahesh's ideas. I'd like to be able to approve/disapprove member joining, and unknown people posting, as well. You can currently approve/discard held posts by email. If admin_immed_notify is Yes, the

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with delivery -- gmail

2006-11-19 Thread Alan McConnell
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:49PM -0800, Dragon wrote: . . . . your INBOX. I see a fair number of complaints on one of the mailing lists I subscribe to that has a lot of gmail users on it about gmail's general disregard for the existence of mailing lists and the whole concept

Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5

2006-11-19 Thread John A. Martin
Brad == Brad Knowles Re: [Mailman-Users] Difficulties with mailman 2.1.5 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:52:50 -0600 Brad What really needs to happen is the Debian guys need to get Brad 2.1.9 and Debian-ize that codebase, and then ship that out Brad to all their customers. Problem is, the

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

2006-11-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 19, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: This might very well work. But speaking only for myself, I would not be interested in being on the mailman-help list. I don't blame you ;). If anybody else is interested in seeing a

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

2006-11-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 19, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you haven't started rebuilding the archives yet, I suggest you don't do it. Not only will it invalidate all the links in the FAQ which can be changed with some effort, it will also invalidate