Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 2017-10-01 22:23, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > > On 9/29/2017 11:34 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > >> (mailman 2.1.12 on centos 6.9) > > > > I don't think that Mark mentioned it, but 2.1.12 is -painfully- old (as > > is centos 6.9) and centos packages often lag way behind the > > corresponding source versions. > > > > If you need to stick with 6.9, I would consider ditching the centos > > package and installing the current mailman from source. Otherwise, can > > you move to a more modern Linux and more recent mailman? > > Mailman's been been trouble- and maintenance-free for us since we > switched from whatever-that-perl-thing-was-called all those years ago, > and it never occurred to me it'd something as silly as abort the running > op because my browser timed out.
Though the consequences of timeout were unfortunate, & Mailman would benefit from patching, I wouldn't blame Mailman, as you first wrote: > a few days ago I made a mistake (?) of uploading a list of ~7000 > addresses into the "bulk subscribe" box. Just delete the question mark: Yes it Was a silly mistake ! > Now that I know, I'll consider > "upgrading" -- to the university-run lyris: I might as well outsource > the whole thing. Better adopt the normal procedure for free source projects: Write & submit patches to project, to fix your problem. Cheers, Julian -- Julian H. Stacey, Computer Consultant, BSD Linux Unix Systems Engineer, Munich Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printable. http://berklix.eu/brexit/ UK stole 3,500,000 votes; 700,000 from Brits in EU. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org