Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Jon Roland
Chris Barnes wrote: Quite frankly, "old underpowered laptops" shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). In production mode, where the machine is serving visitors from the Internet, no, but for development a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-22 Thread Jon Roland
Brad Knowles wrote: At 1:09 AM -0500 2004-09-22, Jon Roland wrote: it seems like it would be useful to have an alternative of running a python GUI that does the same thing without having to run the web server when the use for it is so limited. Just a suggested item for the to-do list. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
Mark Sapiro wrote: As far as running the a web server is concerned, You don't have to, but that's the GUI list administration and user interface. No web server -> no GUI for even these functions. I've figured that out, and I can certainly see why it makes sense when the list administrator is not d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
Thanks, Mark, for taking the time to respond. Mark Sapiro wrote: It is unclear to me where you are at this point. Have you read the INSTALL file in the top level of the source distribution and done all of that? I have now. It was not in the /var/mailman directory tree, but in the /usr/share/doc/ma

[Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
This is my first message to the list. I have used listservs for years as an ordinary subscriber, but the time has come to set one up on my local Linux machine, running Fedora Core 2. I have the latest Mailman installed, by default in /var/mailman, but after wending through the volumes of online