Re: [Mailman-Users] Message may contain ... administrivia?

2015-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:10:35 -0400 Bryan Blackwell wrote: Hello Bryan, >When e-mail lists had no web interface, subscribers would often send >admin commands - "unsubscribe", "set digest", etc., to the actual list Sadly, many people still do. Despite the appearance of footer notes telling them w

Re: [Mailman-Users] DKIM Failures cause posts from gmail users to not be relayed to the list

2015-08-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:04:14 -0400 Barry Warsaw wrote: Hello Barry, >FWIW, lists.debian.org does not run Mailman. Fair enough. Seems to me to be less likely that Peter's problem is the same, as other list owners of mailman run lists would probably be reporting similar errors. -- Regards _

Re: [Mailman-Users] DKIM Failures cause posts from gmail users to not be relayed to the list

2015-08-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:58 + Peter Bossley wrote: Hello Peter, >mailing lists need to work properly as well. Does anyone have any >suggestions or ideas on why the Munge setting didn't seem to have an >impact? I'm far from being an expert regarding DKIM, DKMS and mailman, but what I can sa

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

2015-04-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:56:21 -0700 Carl Zwanzig wrote: Hello Carl, >(As I've opined before, IME many people consider what we might call >inline posting to be "bottom posting". I follow language that usage.) More and more these days, on many mailing lists, I see *real* bottom posting(1); Severa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security patch and Mailman 2.1.20 to be released on 31 March

2015-03-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:24:25 +0100 Roland Miyamoto wrote: Hello Roland, >I am running Mailman 2.1.15 under Debian 7. >Will the fix be included in the usual repository updates? I can't speak as an authority on either Mailman of Debian, only as a user, but security updates are usually ported to

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:39:00 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Usenet over UUCP via 300 baud modems on backbone servers with 5MB >disks.[1] Same went for FTNs, etc. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately appar

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:52:19 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: Hello Tanstaafl, >On 3/19/2015 6:47 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >> In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the >> program will analyze the headers, determine that the post being >> replied to came from a list and offer a "Re

Re: [Mailman-Users] CC pruning: does it work?

2015-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:35:52 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Does this actually work? In practice, I get the feeling that a large >minority at least unsets "nodupes". XEmacs lists default to nodupes, I always turn NoDupes off. The reason being that I *want* the list copy,

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:19:29 +0200 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, >Le 16/04/2014 20:59, Brad Rogers a écrit : >> Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email >> address too. >does this occur often? It can, yes. In the past year, I've changed pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:31:25 +0200 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, >(... why people can't use they ISP's mail?) In case that's not a rhetorical question: Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email address too. When you're subscribed to over one hundred mailing lists, to say

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prefix for subject line

2014-02-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:43:27 +0200 nikos wrote: Hello nikos, >What will happened if i remove (leave blank) Prefix for subject line? There will be no prefix to add to the subject line. This is not harmful in any way but some people prefer, for various reasons, to have them. Some MUAs seem to ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachment with welcome message

2013-02-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" wrote: Hello Amit, >I wish to send an attached file with list guidelines via welcome Does it need to be an attachment? Why not enter the guidelines into the body of the message as plain text? Of course, 99.999% of people *don't* read the welcom

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suspend a Subscriber

2012-10-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:37:06 -0400 Dennis Putnam wrote: Hello Dennis, >Is there a way to suspend or otherwise prevent a subscriber from posting Put them on 'moderation', which means all their posts have to be approved before they go out to the list. I know that means work, but you could just i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail "features"

2012-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:09:22 +0200 Lucio Crusca wrote: Hello Lucio, >Brad Rogers writes: >> Send: smtp.foo.bar >Does that mean that I must have an external (from my mailman server >point of view) smtp server? That would explain everything, but that I believe so, yes. I only ru

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail "features"

2012-08-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 12:19:41 - "Lucio Crusca" wrote: Hello Lucio, >Like I said, I suspect it depends on the list. My current best guess is >that older lists (i.e. the ones that had been created before some time >in the past) don't hit the infamous feature, while newer ones do. Gmail has *alw

Re: [Mailman-Users] A simple unsubscribe

2012-06-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0400 "Brian Canty" wrote: Hello Brian, >Hello - I was wondering if anyone has a way to provide subscribers a >simple and easy way to unsubscribe from a mailing list. I do not What's wrong with the current challenge and response method? Stops people from malicious

Re: [Mailman-Users] what constitutes spam?

2012-04-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:39:44 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: Hello Anne, > As I said in my reply, this is hardly spam, I did not send it out to You sent out an Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) which, to most people, constitutes SPAM. Whether you sent it to one person or one million is irrelevan

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

2009-06-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:27:22 -0500 Grant Taylor wrote: Hello Grant, > OoO auto responders usually reply to the From: (header) address of > messages as they have on concept of the SMTP envelope sender. So if Like Matthias, I ban users that use auto-responders. No amount of begging, apologisin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia

2009-06-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:12:17 -0600 LuKreme wrote: Hello LuKreme, > The help says" Administrivia tests will check postings to see whether > it's really meant as an administrative request (like subscribe, > unsubscribe, etc), and will add it to the the administrative requests > queue, notify

Re: [Mailman-Users] Robots Tag

2009-05-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 02 May 2009 16:53:26 -0400 John Webb wrote: Hello John, > Thanks Brad. Any idea what I need to do to get index/follow into my You're welcome. > archives html? Mark has answered that. Which is great, 'coz I had no idea where to look! :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Robots Tag

2009-05-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 01 May 2009 14:56:01 -0400 John Webb wrote: Hello John, > What exactly does the follow or nofollow part of it do? (no)follow tells spiders whether or not to follow links on your page. Of course, it applies *only* to your page, so the link can still be arrived at from external pages. -

[Mailman-Users] Administrivia intercept not working.

2008-12-01 Thread Brad Rogers
Hello All, I run a small mailing list which under version 2.1.11 of Mailman. A while ago, an unsubscribe message came to the list rather than be intercepted and acted upon. I thought nothing of it at the time, but a similar occurrence on another list (to which I subscribe but do not have admin pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] How big message size>

2008-07-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:11:46 +0700 "Maickel Pandie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Maickel, > How big usually you set message size in your mailing list server? I > know the default is 40 KB but it's to small for user that want to > share some file I run one list for a small group of users with