[Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Jon Forrest
I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating a standard list configuration, I started to feel that there was a fundamental flaw in the way Mailman lists are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 12/6/06, Jon Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating a standard list configuration, I started to feel that there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Dragon
Patrick Bogen sent the message below at 08:39 12/6/2006: On 12/6/06, Jon Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Dragon wrote: As far as I can discern from my limited perusing of source code, it would be a huge change in architecture. This is true. While a more detailed discussion of this topic belongs on the developers list,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM -0600 12/6/06, Patrick Bogen wrote: The command-line config_list and/or with_list tools have a slightly higher up-front cost (in terms of work required), but trivialize the cost-per-list for config updates, for the purpose of applying a single value across multiple lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:26 AM -0800 12/6/06, Jon Forrest wrote: Given that Mailman is written in Python, my naive impression would be that this should be relatively easy to implement. (As my old boss Mike Stonebraker used to say, it's just a simple matter of software). Unfortunately, there are people on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:59 AM -0800 12/6/06, Dragon wrote: Your old boss obviously has no realistic grasp of the subject. Don't jump to conclusions too quickly. See my other message first. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trend Micro has announced that they will cancel the stop.mail-abuse.org mail