Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-10 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:42:58AM -0500, William Bagwell wrote: > Respectively disagree. Even end users of a mailing list can download > Gzip'd copies of the archives. The list owner can turn archiving off and > the domain administrator (cPanel end user) can *delete* the entire list > if they d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-10 Thread William Bagwell
On Sunday 10 January 2010, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > snip > > I should explain why I believe *this* feature doesn't really benefit > Mailman itself. It requires destroying data, on behalf of people who > almost by definition don't know exactly what they're doing. In some > cases, doing this pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Carpenter writes: > > John Fitzsimons writes: > > > > > If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be > > > able to remove archives in a future Mailman release please ? > > John, it's not called "free software" because you pay nothing for > > it. It's call "free soft

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Russell Clemings wrote: >Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but why can't the OP just go into >the Mailman web admin page and set the archiving options like anybody else? He doesn't want to change the list's archiving settings. He wants to delete older posts from the archive to free up st

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-09 Thread Russell Clemings
- Forwarded message -- > From: "Brian Carpenter" > To: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" , "'John Fitzsimons'" < > jo...@net2000.com.au> > Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 22:06:21 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives quer

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-08 Thread Brian Carpenter
g > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query. > > John Fitzsimons writes: > > > If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be able to > > remove archives in a future Mailman release please ? > > John, it's not called "free softwar

[Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John Fitzsimons writes: > If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be able to > remove archives in a future Mailman release please ? John, it's not called "free software" because you pay nothing for it. It's call "free software" because you, and I, and the general public are lic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Burling
--On January 9, 2010 11:46:05 AM +1100 John Fitzsimons wrote: From looking at the FAQ it appears that one can only remove mailing list archives if one has shell access. Is that correct ? If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be able to remove archives in a future Mailman re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fitzsimons wrote: > >>From looking at the FAQ it appears that one can only remove mailing >list archives if one has shell access. Is that correct ? > >If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be able to >remove archives in a future Mailman release please ? It is not strictly

[Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-08 Thread John Fitzsimons
>From looking at the FAQ it appears that one can only remove mailing list archives if one has shell access. Is that correct ? If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be able to remove archives in a future Mailman release please ? Regards, John. -