RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-23 Thread mailman
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: TR == Tom Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TR Sorry, I should have clarified that.. however, doesn't Barry TR need at least *some* people to run the beta under load to help TR iron out the problems :) Oh, absolutely! The early

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
TR == Tom Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TR Sorry, I should have clarified that.. however, doesn't Barry TR need at least *some* people to run the beta under load to help TR iron out the problems :) TR Needless to say, I am one of those persons :) Yes! And greatly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:12:58 -0500 Nathan Beittenmiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all! I am currently looking into replacing Majordomo with Mailman for our enterprise mailing list solutions. So far, I can duplicate everything I've customized on Majordomo with default settings in

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Nathan Beittenmiller
About five minutes after I sent this, I came up with a solution that somewhat works. If I add users at the command line nightly (which is how I build the lists with Majordomo), they need a password to unsubscribe or change their settings. For most users, that would be a deterrent right there.

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Ryan
The latest betas of mailman can allow the admin to block unsubscribe requests. However, you can't block the users setting nomail, etc. Seems we're almost there, just not quite :) tom On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Nathan Beittenmiller wrote: About five minutes after I sent this, I came up with a

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
TR == Tom Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TR The latest betas of mailman can allow the admin to block TR unsubscribe requests. However, you can't block the users TR setting nomail, etc. TR Seems we're almost there, just not quite :) I hadn't thought about that, but I've put it

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread mailman
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tom Ryan wrote: The latest betas of mailman can allow the admin to block unsubscribe requests. However, you can't block the users setting nomail, etc. Seems we're almost there, just not quite :) Please note however, Nathan, the use of the word beta in Tom's reply. I am

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Ryan
Sorry, I should have clarified that.. however, doesn't Barry need at least *some* people to run the beta under load to help iron out the problems :) Needless to say, I am one of those persons :) Tom On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tom Ryan wrote: The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:31:41 -0400 (EDT) Tom Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tom Ryan wrote: The latest betas of mailman can allow the admin to block unsubscribe requests. However, you can't block the users setting

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Nathan Beittenmiller
; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe? On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tom Ryan wrote: The latest betas of mailman can allow the admin to block unsubscribe requests. However, you can't block the users setting nomail, etc. Seems we're almost there, just not quite :) Please

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Moz
Nathan wrote: ability to block unsubscribing from a list. We have a number of required campus mailing lists that our users must remain subscribed to at all times. As far as I know, you can unsubscribe by: sending email to list-unsubscribe@... or by using the web form. A little judicious

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-18 Thread Peter Tattersall
I inadvertently ran into another approach to blocking unsubscription. I recently added subscribers using a dump from a database list which I manually edited to remove some extraneous characters. I didn't look hard enough: there were a couple of null (and therefore invisible) characters at the