[Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Carl Holtje
All- There is one question that does not seem to be answered anywhere I've looked.. I would like to close a list.. prevent any further posts, but maintain access to the archives... How do I do this? Is it simply unsubscribing everybody and requiring subscription requests be approved by the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Holtje wrote: I would like to close a list.. prevent any further posts, but maintain access to the archives... How do I do this? Normally you'd just use ~mailman/bin/rmlist listname. This will leave the archives in place. I'm not entirely

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Jon Carnes
That would work. I would also delete the aliases and with the web-admin mark the list as private. On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:17, Carl Holtje wrote: All- There is one question that does not seem to be answered anywhere I've looked.. I would like to close a list.. prevent any further posts,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Carnes wrote: That would work. I would also delete the aliases and with the web-admin mark the list as private. Wouldn't doing so prevent access to the archives? I read Carl's message to mean that he wanted the list archives to remain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Steve Huston
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 11:48 US/Eastern, Todd wrote: Jon Carnes wrote: That would work. I would also delete the aliases and with the web-admin mark the list as private. Wouldn't doing so prevent access to the archives? I read Carl's message to mean that he wanted the list archives to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Jon Carnes
Good point. I made the assumption that he didn't want to allow public access to the list (or archives) any more. On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:48, Todd wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Carnes wrote: That would work. I would also delete the aliases and with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Huston wrote: But, what happens if at some other time you do a bin/arch --wipe listname? Are the .mbox files kept around to rebuild the web archives from, or would they also go with a rmlist? The archives and the .mbox's get kept unless

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Carnes wrote: Good point. I made the assumption that he didn't want to allow public access to the list (or archives) any more. On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:48, Todd wrote: [...] Wouldn't doing so prevent access to the archives? I read Carl's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Jon Carnes
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:31, Todd wrote: I'm still curious what happen if you rmlist a list, leaving the archives, and the archives were private. I assume that means you can't access the archives since their would be no list left to check usernames/passwords against. Does anyone know

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ending a list..

2003-02-28 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Carnes wrote: In theory a private list that was deleted could not have its archives searched by ordinary mortals, since the actual archive files would be stored in the ../private/ area of the archive and Mailman would have no lists to