Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Burling
--On February 3, 2008 6:42:54 PM -0600 Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/08, Jan Steinman wrote: One of my clients is considering using a paid service called Constant Contact (http://www.constantcontact.com) because they claim they can get through people's spam filters.

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steve Burling writes: wasn't getting marked as spam, but the behavior of Constant Contact's mailer was causing red flags at our end that caused their mail to be blocked. Ooh! yea. UM always did play tough D! Former-OSU-prof-shouldn't-find-much-to-like-about-UM-but-I-*like*-it-ly

[Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-03 Thread Jan Steinman
I seem to be gathering a fair number of unrequited pending subscriptions on several mailing lists. I see them by grepping for pending in /var/log/mailman/subscribe, and then checking for corresponding new entries. I did this after one of my hosting clients complained that people were

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jan Steinman wrote: I have successfully gone through the subscription process with several alias addresses, so I know that it works -- at least from within my LAN. I can only surmise that the confirmation messages are languishing in people's spam mailbox. Or they are discarding or ignoring

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-03 Thread Brad Knowles
On 2/3/08, Jan Steinman wrote: One of my clients is considering using a paid service called Constant Contact (http://www.constantcontact.com) because they claim they can get through people's spam filters. Lots of companies have made claims like this. In my experience, their target market

[Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jan Steinman writes: I seem to be gathering a fair number of unrequited pending subscriptions on several mailing lists. I see them by grepping for pending in /var/log/mailman/subscribe, and then checking for corresponding new entries. I did this after one of my hosting clients