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

2006-11-22 Thread LuKreme
On 21-Nov-2006, at 19:50, Brad Knowles wrote: At 8:47 AM -0800 11/21/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: I already tried that. Didn't seem to work. Did you restart Mailman? Archiving keeps an in-memory template cache which needs to be refreshed by a restart. Crap. No, I didn't restart. You'd

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

2006-11-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:19 PM -0700 11/22/06, LuKreme wrote: You'd think that after several years of administering Mailman, I'd remember stuff like that. Why? how often do you restart mailman? Normally, you don't restart it too often. But there are certain times, such as after changing an entry in the

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

2006-11-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:47 AM -0800 11/21/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: I already tried that. Didn't seem to work. Did you restart Mailman? Archiving keeps an in-memory template cache which needs to be refreshed by a restart. Crap. No, I didn't restart. You'd think that after several years of administering

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

2006-11-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:19 AM -0800 11/21/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: However, I see no change on the TOC or monthly index pages. Brad, which template(s) did you change? The main one is archtocnombox.html, not archtoc.html which is only used if there is a link to the global mbox (mm_cfg.PUBLIC_MBOX is True which

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] 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] 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

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

2006-11-18 Thread Georg Sauthoff
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:53:08AM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: At 11:47 AM +0100 11/17/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? Uh, no -- please don't. Please see the

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

2006-11-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 18, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Georg Sauthoff wrote: At the page http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html the authors invite users to just mail to mailman-users@ ('Email Us' - left side, like every left side ) and only 'suggest' to subscribe

[Mailman-Users] Approve subscription requests via mail

2006-11-17 Thread Georg Sauthoff
Hi, when someone subscribes to my mailman mailinglist I get a subscription request (like I configured it): [..] At your convenience, visit: http://www.etc.example.org/foo/bar [..] Hm, this is not the convenience I imagined. Is it possible to configure mailman in such a way, that the admin is

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

2006-11-17 Thread Dragon
Georg Sauthoff sent the message below at 02:47 11/17/2006: PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? End original message. - There was a rather drawn out, and sometimes

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

2006-11-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:47 AM +0100 11/17/06, Georg Sauthoff wrote: PS: Is it ok, if I submit a subscribtion request for this list to www.gmane.org (a nntp gateway and web-archive of mailinglists)? Uh, no -- please don't. Please see the archives for the background on this issue. PPS: Perhaps you could

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

2006-11-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: PPS: Perhaps you could remove the direct link to this list from http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/lists.html (in the left row) - because the list requires subscription. The list does require