On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also it does not prevent new members who sign up after "the cleanup" to
> perpetrate the problem below.
>

True, but refreshing subscriptions is not a solution for that anyways.
Those who sign up fresh are generally interested enough to at least
apologize if someone protests. This is just a way to see how many of
those signed up are actually interested and care enough to stay on.
IMO it doesn't take much as a member to simply click on a confirmation
link.

The real effort, as Praveen mentioned, is for the admins. If there is
a "membership re-confirmation" feature in mailman then well and good,
but otherwise it's going to either need a patch or for the admins to
sweat it out. Could it be possible to:

1) Resend confirmation emails
2) List responding email IDs with the help of a script and get a list
which has not responded and call it script_foo
3) Unsubscribe all in  script_foo and send an unsubscribed mail

Is this scriptable? I have no idea how mailman works so just
speculating. And are the admins willing for it in the first place? If
they're no then this is a wasted discussion anyways.


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