Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman is changing list names to upper case first letter; how can that be changed? Are list names not case-sensitive?

2013-04-30 Thread Kirke Johnson
BRAVO! I have been working around that behavior in Mailman-related scripts for years. Too bad they now have me migrating from Mailman to Google Groups... Kirke Johnson Internet: kjohn...@pcc.edu Email Administrator, TSS , Sylvania Campus Portland Community

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman is changing list names to upper case first letter; how can that be changed? Are list names not case-sensitive?

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/30/2013 12:15 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> I assume there is some way to change that behavior in a python file, but >> where? ... > If you want to change this default, edit the module Mailman/MailList.py. > Around line 352 you'll see > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman is changing list names to upper case first letter; how can that be changed? Are list names not case-sensitive?

2013-04-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/30/2013 12:15 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I assume there is some way to change that behavior in a python file, but > where? Mailman's internal list name, i.e. the name of of it's lists/LISTNAME directory and the name in URLs and the exposed list email addresses. Assuming you have a case se

[Mailman-Users] Mailman is changing list names to upper case first letter; how can that be changed? Are list names not case-sensitive?

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Browder
To answer part of my question, I guess list names are not case sensitive since they are used in an e-mail address. However, I do not like Mailman assuming I want an upper case first character in my templates and such about the list. Specifically, I used a script to create a list named 'cs-24' (an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: Mass Mail

2013-04-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/30/2013 04:03 AM, Javad Hoseini-Nopendar wrote: > > What do the hosting companies of other countries do in > order to prevent spamming by the users of their mailing lists? Do they > deactivate the mailing lists too, or have ways to supervise the websites and > prevent them from spamming? ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: Mass Mail

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Shetron
I can't say what others do, but we carefully vet people before setting up a list for someone. One of my email addresses is on every list we host so I get a copy of everything sent. I use thunderbird and have it filter all the mailing list traffic to a separate mailbox. Once the list if prope

[Mailman-Users] Fw: Mass Mail

2013-04-30 Thread Javad Hoseini-Nopendar
Thank you dear Mark, Steven, Adam and Richard for your helpful answers. Now I have another question. Many of the hosting servers in my country Iran, disable the mailing list service for all their users (unless the users of Private Servers). If you talk to them and swear an oath not to send spam,