On or near 8/24/04 9:33 PM, Jim Tittsler at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On Aug 25, 2004, at 06:13, Allen Watson wrote: >>> You need shell access to use withlist. If all you have is the web >>> interface I suspect you'd have to go through and do it manually. >>> >>> >> That's the case AFAIK. I'll have to inquire at Pair.com to see if I >> can get >> access. > > bin/withlist is the best solution. > > However if you don't have shell access, there is the kludge of > *locally* scripting the web operations necessary to get your result... > working entirely through the web interface.
Jim, thanks for all this info (deleted for brevity)... > > Given a list of subscriber email addresses (which you may be able to > obtain by mailing the 'who' command to the list-request, although it > sounds like you have a list that you mass subscribed) It was the attempt to use "who" that uncovered the problem of everyone being set "hide"; when that's the case, the "who" list is empty! > For extra credit, you could scrape the users that need setting from the > Membership Management web pages. > That's what I'd have to do...but pair.com simply un-hid everyone for me. Still, I've saved your script for possible use later, modified for other purposes. > Or use a shell script taking advantage of curl's -F option. > That escapes me. I read the man entry on the -F option, but I'm not clear how I would use it. (Don't feel you need to explain. My experience with Unix shell scripts is limited to some stuff I did about 30 years ago and a few simple things done on my Mac OS X system.) > I feel so unclean. LOL! -- Your companion on the journey, Allen Watson The Circle of Atonement, P.O. Box 4238, W. Sedona, AZ 86340 <http://www.circleofa.com> "Thus is your healing everything the world requires, that it may be healed" (A Course in Miracles, T-27.V.7:1). ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
