Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
turn on personalization, and this problem goes away. I frankly wouldn't run mailing lists without at least some personalization -- because as it shows, the old style Bcc: the users style of bulk mailing (a) looks spammy and gets treated as such, and (b) users no longer are terribly tolerant

[Mailman-Users] removing an address with a tab in it.

2005-03-22 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Somehow (I don't know), one of my lists has ended up with a user subscribed as tab[EMAIL PROTECTED]. because of taht, all the normal unsub stuff works, and I can't ofr the life of me remember the magic incantation to get mailman to let me unsubscribe an address with a funky character in it.

Re: [Mailman-Users] listowners.org

2005-03-03 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
is the owner of listowerns.org around? if so, drop me a note, will you? I'm willing to take it over and operate it. On Mar 3, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: At 6:27 AM -0600 2005-03-03, Willie McKemie wrote: Listowners.org has been down (to my knowledge) for several days. It's been

Re: [Mailman-Users] block cc?

2005-02-28 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 28, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Christopher Adams wrote: A list owner asked me if a list can be configured so that any message sent to the list could not have a cc (carbon copy) attached. that'd be a very bad idea. Look at this message, for instance. It'd block any message sent to the list with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman installation across two servers

2005-02-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I like to keep my setup simple here. Web servers run apache. Mail servers run sendmail. The two are never mixed. What we did when we had to do this was simply set up the web machine as a proxy. you still run mailman via apache on your

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
The fact that at least 4 people from this list have already responded that they too have gotten that same mailman confirm email from that domain/list at about the time, as they recall, that they first subscribed here and made their first post leaves no doubt at this point that there is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'm still a bit more skeptical at this point than no doubt, but I'm open to the idea. since I've already found the culprit (I hope), it's well beyond no doubt. it's guaranteed. Someone is somehow watching this public list and getting addresses of

Re: [Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman when accessing Private Archives

2005-02-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Steve Burling wrote: What the heck were they thinking when the designers of Python chose amount of leading white space to indicate block structure? It seems absolutely guaranteed to cause problems such as this. it's one of those things about python that you either

Re: [Mailman-Users] archiving attachments via 3rd party software with no mailbox access

2005-02-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
check out MHonarc. (www.mhonarc.org). It should do what you want. On Feb 8, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Robert Flach wrote: Unfortunately, all of the solutions in the FAQ (which I checked before posting) require either access to mailboxes or access to the Mailman internals, neither of which I have in my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 16, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Joshua Beall wrote: I have a client who wants to setup a very *large* mailing list. Right now she has about 4500 people on the list (including myself). 4500 is not large. I've run lists on mailman over 40K. I run lists where the testing group is probably 4500... Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
What is the largest known MM list out there? I can go to about 50K, on moderately slow hardware (sun E250). An xserve can handle that without breaking a sweat. We're thinking of using it for a list that currently contains 400,000 entries, though probably about 20% of those should be

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
sure it can. it's a porn site. you running IE on windows, right? try installing firefox on the same machine and see what happens. On Feb 16, 2005, at 4:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no way this can be due to a hijacked browser. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] security heads up - path traversal with 2.1.5

2005-02-14 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 14, 2005, at 4:24 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: You're trying to establish something like ownership of security bugs. No, I'm trying to get the people on this list to follow the STANDARD PROTOCOL that exists for disclosure of this data, actually. Which if people actually paid attention to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Critical security update for Mailman 2.1.5

2005-02-10 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 10, 2005, at 8:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in assuming the attack only allows hackers to access (read) files? Yes, I understand that if they can read/get mailman passwords, they can obviously change lists but nothing more nefarious than that? they can not only get the

Re: [Mailman-Users] security heads up - path traversal with 2.1.5

2005-02-10 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
If you own a business, and your customers start telling your employees when to take coffee breaks, would that upset you? that's the same issue as when users decide when to make announcements about mailman without consulting Barry. It's Barry's call. A lot of this comes down to the issue of

Re: [Mailman-Users] security heads up - path traversal with 2.1.5

2005-02-09 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
If Barry didn't know about it, disclosing it without his approval was wrong. if barry DID know, and hadn't done the disclosure himself, doing it without his approval was wrong, because Barry likely had a reason why he hadn't mentioned it yet. Either way, something like this should have been

Re: [Mailman-Users] security heads up - path traversal with 2.1.5

2005-02-09 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
However, I also take Chuq's point that all security announcements to this list, and all related mailman mailing lists hosted on python.org, should be made by Barry or one of the other core developers. Even if the information has been publicly released elsewhere, it is not appropriate to post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + giant lists + the infinite weight of the cosmos

2005-02-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
I'd imagine Apple's lists are much, much larger... IIRC, the last time I heard, their largest single list was somewhere in the region of 15,000 users. at one point we had one list that was over 40K, but we've migrated it to other things and it's not on mailman any longer. But then they host

Re: [Mailman-Users] {Oink!!} Pig at the wedding question/diatribe

2004-11-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
And you get what you pay for, I guess. If you're in that situation, why do you assume that because the software doesn't have a price tag you no longer need a compentent tech person managing it? you did a great explanation of why geeks still get paychecks, not why these packages are bad. On

Re: [Mailman-Users] {Oink!!} Pig at the wedding question/diatribe

2004-11-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Nov 5, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Stewart Dean wrote: John, everything you say is valid, and your response is helpful. It is not my intent to just 'bitch from the cheap seat'...the old, 'The food's no good and there's not enough of it'. What I was attempting to express was/is my frustration at a

Re: [Mailman-Users] {Oink!!} Pig at the wedding question/diatribe

2004-11-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
of course, we're also desperate for people to document... that's another common request -- better docs. On Nov 5, 2004, at 3:32 PM, John W. Baxter wrote: Some people who shouldn't code should document, instead. Lots of projects could use that (including commercial ones). Or coordinate.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on 2 servers

2004-11-03 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
no, but you can set up mailman to run on one machine, and use the second machine as a web proxy for the pages. that's straight forward. I'd be very leery of network filesystem issues because of the locking problems that might happen. On Nov 3, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Troy Richard wrote: I think that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent AOL thread

2004-10-21 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
But the same error message over multiple mailings for *all* AOL list members over a week or more would indicate that it is correct. Maybe. Remember that I used to work there. Brad's right here. I've dealt with this stuff and AOL enough to be able to confirm they don't always have their act

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent AOL thread

2004-10-21 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Oct 21, 2004, at 3:56 AM, John Fleming wrote: are otherwise blocked. Mine is a personal sever. I am a newbie, but I'm using Postfix/Debian and it is not an open relay. AOL also blocks email from servers living in IP spaces known to be dialup or in the cable modem or home DSL ranges in many

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent AOL thread

2004-10-21 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: blacklist. Even though the list mail is finally coming from my server, couldn't the presence of his IP or ISP in the message headers be enough to trigger the blacklist? - john No. Yes, actually. That's not quite right, I don't think, because if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent AOL thread

2004-10-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
did you follow the link that AOL supplied? The IP address you are sending from has been temporarily rate limited due to AOL Member complaints. their suggestions are there, also. On Oct 20, 2004, at 8:29 AM, John Fleming wrote: I've followed the AOL members not receiving list mail thread from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pretty good Announcement only How-to + more on Mac

2004-09-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Sep 25, 2004, at 11:28 AM, demo wrote: Just out of interest, have Apple actually put anything back *into* your development community? Looking into the future, you might want to hive off a lost-Mac-tech-mailman list ... My guess is that there are going to be a whole load of lost souls headed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pretty good Announcement only How-to + more on Mac

2004-09-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
um, I happen to know those folks pretty well. They're as responsive as they can be, given they have the same kind of restrictions we all do (even here in Mailman-land): can't do everything for everyone, because there isn't enough resource, and not everything ought to be done. won't speak for

Re: [Mailman-Users] 30,000 Member List - Python Pickle Performance

2004-09-09 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
yup. It's probably the delivery piece, not mailman. I've run 50,000+ on a sun E250. On Sep 9, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote: Is this due to the pickle based persistence mechanism used? Can I do anything to help? Regarding sending, you'll probably wanna tune your

Re: [Mailman-Users] All AOL members not receiving emails

2004-09-01 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
you would be doing them a favor, honest. On Sep 1, 2004, at 9:28 AM, John wrote: so may have to unsubscribe all the AOL people and tell them to use a different email if they still wish to be on the list. That's kind of a bummer for them --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages

2004-08-23 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Aug 23, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Jeff Barger wrote: Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? You can play around with the spam filtering to catch a lot of these messages. IMHO, it's best to just stop munging the Reply-To. See this page: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Worm

2004-07-26 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
it's a new virus, sending itself out as return bounces. On Jul 26, 2004, at 9:46 AM, Jim Gammon wrote: Hi folks, a Newbie here. Suddenly our list is generating a high volume of messages about our mail being unacceptable, and one saying we seem to be infected with a worm. Any advice on what to

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?

2004-04-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Guys -- Can we please drop this? It's been beaten into the ground. I don't think the mailman development crew has shown itself well here, either, especially Brad, who seems to be grumpy beyond the needs of the discussion for some reason. I don't think we as a team managing an open source

Re: [Mailman-Users] The AOL Problem

2004-04-03 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Apr 3, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Bob Bowers wrote: On Tuesday I was informed by my web hosting service that they had multiple spam complaints from AOL for one of my mail lists. welcome to the monkey farm: http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/000256.html

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-09 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 8, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Thomas Hochstein wrote: It has got nothing to do with Mailman. Go and ask at the right place. I have no clue Obviously. But please stop bothering us with that. c'mon, folks. There's a polite way to help people, and then there's -- this. Stuff like this doesn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help w/ mailman, qmail

2004-02-09 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Adam Wozniak wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Remko Lodder wrote: /var/qmail/bin/sendmail should also be able to do the task :) Thanks so much for all the help. My lists now appear to be passing mail. My shunt directory is still full of test messages, but I'm less

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Reply to list

2004-02-06 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Paul H Byerly wrote: I think the issue for the developers is theory vs. reality. What is the desired behaviour for the majority of new Mailman lists? Should not that be the default, with appropriate explanations? This isn't the answer some will want to hear,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Reply to list

2004-02-06 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 5:02 PM, Mark Dadgar wrote: Cool! I'm a Level 10 Paladin with 115 hit points! (ok, *now* I'm done) lightweight. I'd have you killed, but you're not worth the karma points. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-06 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Mark Dadgar wrote: So, what's your point? Unless you've been in my position, you wouldn't understand it. Actually, since I know Brad pretty well by now, I'll bet he would. Try him and see. -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
those of us who do email for a living feel it's not a rationalization, and not ridiculous. But those that argue against it do. Sorry, but the fact that you don't agree with it doesn't change my mind. On Feb 4, 2004, at 10:55 PM, Mark Dadgar wrote: This is totally ridiculous. The document you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 4:01 AM, John Buttery wrote: If the whole concept of information being irretrievably destroyed by clobbering Reply-To: willy-nilly isn't a compelling reason to you, I'm not sure what else to say. This issue goes away if we could stop trying to use reply-to for too many

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Mark Dadgar wrote: My lists use it. And my users prefer it - I know, I've asked. self-selected audiences. I have asked users what they think, and gotten one answer, and I've done formal surveys soliciting feedback from the entire list, and gotten very different

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Bottom line, I can understand that there was a time when reply to author made sense for a lot of lists, but I don't think that is the case anymore. I feel that it really depends on the nature of the list - the purpose, the participants, the number of participants. and the religious war

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Warren Woodward wrote: We now have upwards of 400 public lists on our mailman server, and I have heard complaints over this matter from every single one of them. be wary of the squeaky wheel speaking for the entire wagon. just list this discussion. you may be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: Indeed, he has. He doesn't like to brag about it, but he does run some of the largest known Mailman mailing lists, and his systems are on the same scale as the Kolstad Chalup papers that I have previously mentioned on this mailing list. Chuq

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL format frustration

2004-01-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Jan 4, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Steve Roitstein wrote: I write the messages in the mail program the comes with my mac. I sometimes send out a small jpg attachment but mostly it's text with a bit of color added to a few words. Subscribers who are on AOL get the message in a different text, no line

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounces coming back to sender address

2003-12-14 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Dec 14, 2003, at 6:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make sure all the bounces go back to list-owner@ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] domain.com for bounce processing and so that I do not have to see them. Basically, you can't, because there are some sites that simply refuse to follow

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman AOL's Client TOS notification

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
anyone on any of my lists who files a spam complaint against my mail list gets unsubscribed. when they resubscribe and complain about being dropped, they get The Lecture and The Warning. If they send a second round of spam complaints, they get unsubscribed and banned. Funny, AOL users learn

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman AOL's Client TOS notification

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
don't bother. I've had that discussion. The folks who deal with the TOS messages are trained at the if the user says it's spam, it must be spam, so what are you going to do about it? level. they don't want justice, they want quiet. (and I can sympathize at some level, but what a way to run an

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman AOL's Client TOS notification

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:54 AM, Ricardo Kustner wrote: I wish I could do that: my current mailman setup doesn't put the user's address in the To: address and since those wonderful AOL reports only include the original message, I can't tell from who it is coming!! upgrade to 2.1, turn on

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman AOL's Client TOS notification)

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Will Yardley wrote: Do we *really* need this feature on the mailman-users list? Does anyone actually find it helpful? god, yes. Please don't assume everyone on your lists is a geek with perfect memory of which email address got signed up for what list when.

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman AOL's Client TOS notification)

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
bad assumption. On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Will Yardley wrote: I'd like to assume (perhaps wrongly) that most people on *this* list can figure out what address a message was sent to by looking at the headers of the email --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CPanel?

2003-09-22 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Paul H Byerly wrote: Am I correct in assuming that the problem is with the CPanel interface with Mailman No. All we really know is that Cpanel isn't working on one specific ISP. Whether that's CPanel's fault or the ISP's fault, or smoe other

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CPanel?

2003-09-22 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
so perhaps the Mailman FAQ should have an item suggesting Cpanel users contact Cpanel for support? On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely not stock installs of any of the programs bundled with them, or stock configs.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users worried about spammers getting their emailaddress

2003-08-27 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Heath Raftery wrote: I have a user who is on a campaign to remove his email address from any web site. good for him. he's figured it out... However, I did point out that the archives are still downloadable in raw mbox format, complete with email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

2003-07-30 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Gee, maybe you should start writing code, eh? I used to until [troll deleted by moderator] As one of the admins here, I've just set [EMAIL PROTECTED] to moderated status, so all of his postings will be approved by one of the moderators before going to the list. Given where this discussion is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to purge corrupt address

2003-03-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ chuqui%40plaidworks.com -- Chuq Von Rospach

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1: lotsa language options problems...

2003-02-03 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
am. I'll look at that when I can. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1: lotsa language options problems...

2003-02-02 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
turned off or taken away. If it does, really bad things happen... -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Loop

2003-01-23 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 10:01 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: Huh? What's an X-loop header? Mailman doesn't use or add this header. It's a procmail convention, so that procmail recipes can tell they've already seen a message and break a potential mail loop. -- Chuq Von Rospach

Re: [Mailman-Users] Local DNS vs. DNS on the same subnet

2003-01-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 02:22 PM, Angel Gabriel wrote: My question is, would it be quicker to have the DNS on the same machine as mailman, Yes, sometimes very significantly. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ Yes, I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: RFE

2003-01-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
require a much different user interface than discussion lists do, I wrote custom systems. Mailman really isn't something yous hould try to wedge into that round hole, and I don't think it makes sense to try to use it as the backend... -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade: 2.0.13 to 2.1, searchable archives?

2003-01-03 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
, it's cleaner than trying to add stuff to pipermail I'd have to maintain. given my free time, noot a good sitaution. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ But when that last guitar's been packed away You know that I still want to play So just

Re: [Mailman-Users] questions

2002-11-30 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
to confirm the unsubscription. So you can avoid the password hassle by clicking a web link. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Spam by vacation notifications in Mailman

2002-11-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
it. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Spam by vacation notifications in Mailman

2002-11-15 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
-to to the list, you won't set up your lists to ask for these wonderful little mailbombs. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
that traditionally points to the info pages (and with 2.1, that can be customized to the user), do we still need to send out reminders monthly? -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
monthly is about right. I'm not ready to do away with them, especially since 2.1 can hook the bounce systme into them. but I'm still unsure just what good they do, either. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switch to quarterly reminders

2002-11-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
they unsubscribed? Or go on vacation and forget to turn it back on, and when the reminder came, decided they liked the quiet? I can think of a bunch of scenarios, but I don't have any data. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ The first rule

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't subscribe via web

2002-10-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
many ways to make life much worse. And given how often we run into I thought it was optional (as opposed to read the instructions? why?'), I'm just not convinced it's broken. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ Stress is when you wake up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 01:15 PM, Jeff Simmons wrote: I've talked to several other Mailman admins - Hotmail is dumping a lot of messages from us on the floor. Hotmail seems to be more broken than usual. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech, Apple IST E-mail systems [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman

2002-08-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ IMHO: Jargon. Acronym for In My Humble Opinion. Used to flag as an opinion something that is clearly from context an opinion to everyone except the mentally dense. Opinions flagged by IMHO are actually rarely humble. IMHO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-14 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
and the information that someone thought someone else would be interested in xxx. I won't use them on any site where I don't trust the privacy policy. And, well, I generally odn't use ANY site I don't trust the privacy policy, but that's a different issue. - Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?

2002-08-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
into the house (back to 1995 or so), and I find it perfectly reliable enough. Although I always find people telling my my setup won't work fascinating... (grin) -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
. The original request put it too far into the approval chain, though. Some way of letting a person know about the list is good. Signing them up isn't. Building your setup so it can be hijacked is really bad. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ He doesn't have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?

2002-08-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
slashdotted multiple times and my server doesn't implode, unlike many others. Frankly, I don't think you have a clue here. I'm DOING IT. Have been for years. So why don't I have a clue? And you do? -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ He doesn't have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?

2002-08-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
other note on this. That's why they have business lines. If you're plaing the go cheap and hope they don't find out game, that's not the ISP's fault. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
the @#$@#$% off the list, whether or not they're on it yet. Point the user to the thing. Don't, whatever you do, do NOT start the process FOR them. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ IMHO: Jargon. Acronym for In My Humble Opinion. Used to flag as an opinion something

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman

2002-08-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
. It merely means they feel they can do anything, and you can't tell them not to. Of course, by saying you can't tell them to not do it, they impinge on your free speech (if you accept their definition), but since that affects you, not them, that doesn't really matter. To them. -- Chuq Von

[Mailman-Users] Surveying list users

2002-07-11 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
this pretty short (25 questions or so, to keep from intimidating users into giving up), I don't think we'll get everything we want. But feel free to suggest things,a nd we'll decide later what to make the priorities... Your thoughts on this more than encouraged... Chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mail forwarding loops - discovered!

2002-06-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
. Amazingly often, it doesn't seem to. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] DNS Queries

2002-06-10 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 6/10/02 7:07 PM, Jonathan Andrew Sheen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking see if mailman has a way to specify what port it's making its DNS requests *from.* Mailman does no DNS lookups. It's all up to your mail delivery system. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: digest sent to list posting address, why?

2002-06-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
a round trip through some user's mail client? Because that on behalf of sounds an awful lot like it got forwarded or redirected. Take a look at a set of full headers to see whether maybe it got sent out normally, and then someone who received it did this to you Um, for you. Um... -- Chuq Von

Re: [Mailman-Users] User List

2002-05-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
from not agreeing with our development styles to personality attacks. Trolls are trolls, and it serves no useful purpose to the Mailman system to continue trying to 'help' this person, since all he's interested in doing is pointing out what idiots we are. Chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech

Re: [Mailman-Users] cron, was: Mailman does everything exceptsend mail

2002-05-15 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
of the bathroom, too, but most of us don't feel the need to do that to say the bathroom is clean... (in other words, IMHO, it's overkill and you're 'solving' a non-problem) -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet

Re: [Mailman-Users] unexpected EOF

2002-05-11 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 5/11/02 6:08 PM, Barry A. Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, should Sendmail.py just go away? Yes. If nobody's fixed it by now, it's unlikely anyone will. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2002-04-26 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
as to the -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-19 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 4/19/02 8:53 AM, Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes you kind of want to create a Meta admin page with some standard setups like Announce-only list, etc. Or write up faqs/howtos on how to configure specific standard list styles? Maybe an operators manual of some sort? -- Chuq Von

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking few features for listadmin

2002-04-10 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
constructive. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Very funny, Scotty. Now beam my clothes down here, will you? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs Sympa

2002-04-10 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
with and which feature set best meets your needs. If I weren't working with Mailman, I'd be using Sympa. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
who gets the message from a friend of a friend who saw it on a mail list has a chance of figuring out how to get onto the list. List-Archive:, like List-Post:, seems like Mailman could determine Again, I think that's a 2.1 thing. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Removing those extra List-* headers

2002-04-08 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
, just maybe, the people who spend their time designing, building, maintaining and operating mailman and mailman-using systems know something about this topic that people like OP don't. Nah. He's right. Let's nuke the headers. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-07 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 4/7/02 5:30 PM, J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you considered that perhaps Mailman is just not for you? Nope. Not relevant. Don't inject facts into a rant. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ The first rule of holes: If you are in one

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed:nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-11 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
the angry replies go back to the poor schmuck in the reply-to -- and since I've already abandoned the hotmail account I used to start the bomb, I'm off scott free) -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch andreply-to munging per user

2002-03-11 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
into messages with the karma rating, so users could filter based on the karma rating. All sorts of fun ways to get people to play karma politics on your mail list... Funny, FWIW, is -3. It is one of the biggest problems with /. Karma. But I digress. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
think I'll hold off for a bit and see how this part of the saga plays out. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Very funny, Scotty. Now beam my clothes down here, will you? -- Mailman-Users maillist

Re: [Mailman-Users] Our Institution requires standardheader/footer on all pages...

2002-02-17 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
might require a little tweaking, but that's easy. -- Chuq Von Rospach ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/) Will Geek for hardware. The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after -- Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman question: How do I use server sideincludes in administrator interface option: Edit General List InformationPage

2002-01-30 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 1/30/02 9:38 PM, Ed Reiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Benny, Yes - I'm using Apache, and SSI had been enabled. But SSI generally doesn't work in CGI programs, which the python files are. The two are basically mutually exclusive. What I did was use mod_layout (www.tangent.org) instead

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/20/01 1:01 AM, J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names mailman can handle at a single time? Explicitly no. In terms of runtime resource consumption, yes. I'd be very wary, unless you have really large iron. The current

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/20/01 11:56 AM, J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I manage two larger than that (neither on mailman). Hurm. In my context above I'm assuming that list does not cover marketing lists per se but only what we'd historically/'net-wise consider a mailing list Sorry, a list

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