Re: Mailing list recommend

2012-02-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:59:06PM -, Graham Bentley wrote:

 Default Mail SignatureHi All - can anyone recommend an easy / simple mailing 
 list software?
 All I need is to subscribe/ un-subscribe and a little maintainance of
 users. MySQL if its worth it, or a just php? Any pointers appreciated! 

try mailman.   You may hink it to be overkil for your purpose, but
it is good and fairly easy to set up and use.

jerry 
   
 
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Re: Mailing list recommend

2012-02-05 Thread Da Rock

On 02/06/12 07:59, Graham Bentley wrote:

Default Mail SignatureHi All - can anyone recommend an easy / simple mailing
list software?
All I need is to subscribe/ un-subscribe and a little maintainance of
users. MySQL if its worth it, or a just php? Any pointers appreciated!
This one is run by mailman if that helps. I'm pretty sure the volunteers 
here don't want to be micromanaging all the lists, so it seems to fit 
your bill. Don't know about MySQL or php though.


HTH
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Re: mailing list and personal assaults

2012-01-02 Thread Bill Tillman

 
 



From: Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com
To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 8:58 AM
Subject: mailing list and personal assaults


I as a normal sys admin like to read the mailing lists, because it learned me a 
lot, and it still does.

But lately it looks like more and more people get personal!
The word ass, has passed this year even more  then i used my own.

Maybe it is the time we live in, but please !
If you are not agree with someone's statement or thoughts, ignore it or write 
your thoughts and be done with it.

regards
Johan

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I agree. A mailing list like this should not fall to the lowest common 
denominator. And I would like to add that while this community seems to be an 
exception, far too often someone wastes bandwidth and bytes by telling the 
person with a question to RTFM. I just finished a rather complicated project 
which took me days to resolve and several times when I asked questions there 
was always some wise crack at hand who would make the commen that if you just 
RTFM everything would be fine. In this case the manuals were lacking and most 
of the data was obselete or irrelavent to the project I was conductingkind 
of like FreeBSD documentation.
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Re: mailing list and personal assaults

2012-01-02 Thread Da Rock

On 01/03/12 08:19, Bill Tillman wrote:

I agree. A mailing list like this should not fall to the lowest common denominator. And I 
would like to add that while this community seems to be an exception, far too often 
someone wastes bandwidth and bytes by telling the person with a question to RTFM. I just 
finished a rather complicated project which took me days to resolve and several times 
when I asked questions there was always some wise crack at hand who would make the commen 
that if you just RTFM everything would be fine. In this case the manuals were 
lacking and most of the data was obselete or irrelavent to the project I was 
conductingkind of like FreeBSD documentation.
That is unfortunately the case more often then not. There are use cases 
out there, but a lot of times the description of actually config 
variables is obscure.


I'm hoping to try and fix that, but its on a todo list. I'll post 
something when I have it up and running.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Staal

--As of April 8, 2011 3:50:52 PM -0600, Chad Perrin is alleged to have said:


You seem to fail to realize that it's possible to CC someone who isn't on
the list, but not CC someone who *is* on the list.  That would be why
people who aren't members of the list say thinks like please CC me,
while people who are members occasionally say please don't send
duplicates to me.


--As for the rest, it is mine.

Of course that's hard to keep track of, and a manual process on the part of 
the persons sending the messages.  ;)  (And if it's not mentioned in the 
specific email you are replying to, you either have to rely on memory or 
guess.)


I've seen a variety of other solutions to this.  Some mailing lists 
programs will even check to see if the message has been sent to you 
directly, and if so avoid sending another copy to you.  Usually that's an 
option, and I tend to turn it off: It just means my filters don't work on 
the message I get.


If you have an email client that supports it, there is one good way to 
reliably indicate your preference: The 'Reply-To:' header.  I set mine to 
the mailing list when sending to the list.  Nearly all mail clients will 
then automatically send replies to that address.


Of course, that only works if I have a mail client that lets me set that 
header independently.  My at-home client does, but I also access my email 
over webmail.  The webmail program technically can do it, but it's 
interface is *very* poor.  (Squirrelmail: It allows it via profiles, but 
all profiles are named by the sender address, unchangeable.  For this 
use-case, the sending address is the same for all profiles.)  And while 
*most* email clients support replies to the Reply-To address, not all do. 
Nor does it help if people are habitually hitting reply-all.


Still, I find setting the Reply-To address works better than most of the 
other options.  It doesn't work 100% of the time, but then neither does 
anything else.  (Including address rewriting by the mailing list.)  So, if 
getting two copies is annoying you, try it.  You'll at least have made your 
preference known, without imposing it on others as their preference.


Daniel T. Staal

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Re: Mailing list etiquette

2011-04-09 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:38:26 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote:

 On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:15:11 +0200
 Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote:

  You seem to miss one crucial fact:  Not all the people who write to
  this list are subscribed to it.  They will not see any replies
  directed only to the list.  It is for their benefit that that rule
  exists.

 I don't know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies
 CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't
 notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the
 mailing list each day.

+1

Since I'm subscribed to almost a hundred maillist I should admit that
this rule is *very* helpfull to speed up conversation.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
 
 section 8.6 starts:
 
  start quote 
 Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender and
 to FreeBSD-questions.
  end quote 

I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do *not*
need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet to see
anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the
list.

I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the
list a good reason to do otherwise.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 Apr 2011 20:25, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:

 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
 
  section 8.6 starts:
 
   start quote 
  Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender and
  to FreeBSD-questions.
   end quote 

 I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do *not*
 need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet to see
 anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the
 list.

While you make a valid point, how would one complain about not receiving an
email?

Chris
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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 08 April 2011:
 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
  
  section 8.6 starts:
  
   start quote 
  Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender and
  to FreeBSD-questions.
   end quote 
 
 I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do *not*
 need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet to see
 anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the
 list.
 
 I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the
 list a good reason to do otherwise.
 
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+1 (I replied, cluttering up inboxes all over freebsdland)

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
 On 8 Apr 2011 20:25, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
 
  I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do
  *not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet
  to see anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail
  from the list.
 
 While you make a valid point, how would one complain about not
 receiving an email?

Did you overlook the words in addition to the mail from the list?

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:34:24PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
 
 +1 (I replied, cluttering up inboxes all over freebsdland)

You didn't CC me directly, though, for which I'm grateful.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Carmel
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:11:52 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated:

 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
  
  section 8.6 starts:
  
   start quote 
  Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender
  and to FreeBSD-questions.
   end quote 
 
 I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do
 *not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet
 to see anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail
 from the list.
 
 I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the
 list a good reason to do otherwise.

Chad, it is common sense thinking like that, that will inevitable get
you chastised.

By the way, did you notice I directed a polite, one sentence directive
towards Odhiambo. Suddenly, every buttinsky crawls out of the woodwork,
sans any factual input on my original post and hijacks this thread
championing their own views on replying to posts. I have no problem
with that as long as they start a new thread, being sure to CC each
other and thereby waste their time discussing it among themselves. To
hijack another thread displays no only their lack of basic posting
etiquette, but their narcissism.

It is a shame when individuals like, but not limited to, Maciej
Milewski, Chuck Swiger, Bryan H. and even Odhiambo contribute useful
information only to be over shadowed by those other morons.

Absolutely pathetic.

I was going to CC all those who argued so feverishly in favor of the
protocol, but then common sense and plain decency got the better of me.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 April 2011 20:28, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
 On 8 Apr 2011 20:25, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
 
  I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do
  *not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet
  to see anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail
  from the list.

 While you make a valid point, how would one complain about not
 receiving an email?

 Did you overlook the words in addition to the mail from the list?


My bad...

Chris
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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 April 2011 16:10, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:
 By the way, did you notice I directed a polite, one sentence directive
 towards Odhiambo. Suddenly, every buttinsky crawls out of the woodwork,
 sans any factual input on my original post and hijacks this thread

Maybe you would be better served by not using a _public_
mailing list if you don't want other people to reply to your
_public_ postings.

Just a hint.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:11:52PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
  
  section 8.6 starts:
  
   start quote 
  Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender and
  to FreeBSD-questions.
   end quote 
 
 I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do *not*
 need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet to see
 anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the
 list.
 
 I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the
 list a good reason to do otherwise.

You seem to miss one crucial fact:  Not all the people who write to
this list are subscribed to it.  They will not see any replies directed
only to the list.  It is for their benefit that that rule exists.





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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:15:11PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:11:52PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
  On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
   
   section 8.6 starts:
   
    start quote 
   Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the sender and
   to FreeBSD-questions.
    end quote 
  
  I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do *not*
  need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have yet to see
  anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the
  list.
  
  I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the
  list a good reason to do otherwise.
 
 You seem to miss one crucial fact:  Not all the people who write to
 this list are subscribed to it.  They will not see any replies directed
 only to the list.  It is for their benefit that that rule exists.

You seem to fail to realize that it's possible to CC someone who isn't on
the list, but not CC someone who *is* on the list.  That would be why
people who aren't members of the list say thinks like please CC me,
while people who are members occasionally say please don't send
duplicates to me.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:15:11 +0200
Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote:

 You seem to miss one crucial fact:  Not all the people who write to
 this list are subscribed to it.  They will not see any replies
 directed only to the list.  It is for their benefit that that rule
 exists.

I don't know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies
CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't
notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the
mailing list each day.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Carmel
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:50:52 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated:

 On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:15:11PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
  On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:11:52PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
   On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:

section 8.6 starts:

 start quote 
Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, reply to the
sender and to FreeBSD-questions.
 end quote 
   
   I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often.  I really do
   *not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox.  I have
   yet to see anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to
   the mail from the list.
   
   I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to
   the list a good reason to do otherwise.
  
  You seem to miss one crucial fact:  Not all the people who write to
  this list are subscribed to it.  They will not see any replies
  directed only to the list.  It is for their benefit that that rule
  exists.
 
 You seem to fail to realize that it's possible to CC someone who
 isn't on the list, but not CC someone who *is* on the list.  That
 would be why people who aren't members of the list say thinks like
 please CC me, while people who are members occasionally say please
 don't send duplicates to me.

The solution to this problem is so obvious that I am amazed that no one
has proposed it. Simply require the poster to be subscribed to the
list. Other high quality lists, such as but not limited to Postfix have
that requirement in place. If a potential poster is either too stupid
or too lazy to subscribe then that is their problem. For the record, I
have subscribed to lists before simple to post one question. Upon
receiving an answer, I terminated my subscription. I did not feel the
least bit inconvenienced.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Alexander Lardner
Can we just drop this matter? It's bad enough that iPhone mail makes this whole 
ordeal a pain in the butt to read, but in the grand scheme of things, it _just 
doesn't matter_. I'm subscribed to the list, I expect lots of email from the 
list that I probably won't read anyway, but at least it's helpful to someone, 
somehow. My 2 cents.

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Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Saturday 09 April 2011 05:46:43 Carmel wrote:
 On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:50:52 -0600
 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated:
 
 The solution to this problem is so obvious that I am amazed that no one

this is a solution which creates just new problems.

 has proposed it. Simply require the poster to be subscribed to the
 list. Other high quality lists, such as but not limited to Postfix have
 that requirement in place. If a potential poster is either too stupid
 or too lazy to subscribe then that is their problem. For the record, I
 have subscribed to lists before simple to post one question. Upon
 receiving an answer, I terminated my subscription. I did not feel the
 least bit inconvenienced.

You did not, but the rest of us would have.

Erich
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Re: Mailing list software recommendations

2010-09-22 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:34:15 -0500
Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com articulated:

 I'm thinking about installing either ezmlm or mailman.
 
 I'm not against others; thoughts?

DADA Mail, http://dadamailproject.com/ is an excellent program. It is
not in the ports system although it is on my list of things to do
eventually.

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Re: Mailing list software recommendations

2010-09-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
  I'm thinking about installing either ezmlm or mailman.
  
  I'm not against others; thoughts?

To quote my:
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/gen/mail/mailman/files/
  An agressive 5 minute killer python loop in /var/cron/tanbs/mailman
  has been killing my hosts for 5 years

I dont know if they fixed it.
What worried me was what else might be sloppy  dangerous,
 I didnt have time/ enthusiasm to do a code read through.

One day, if when  after mailman has a code read through to confirm
it has no more killer loops, I'd like to find time for a 2nd stab
to convert all my lists on majord...@berklix.org to mailman.

Cheers,
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Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07:
 In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
  hi there,

  what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire
  mailingslist
  archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?

 Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/
 where you
 can download weekly gzipped archives of all the mailing lists since
 their
 creation.

thanks for the hint, but it would take hours to download all those gzipped
files, extract them and merge them.

i really need ALL the messages of a mailinglist. of course i could use the
gzipped files you mentioned if i had some script for downloading extracting
and merging all those files for me.

alex
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Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de 
wrote:
 Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07:
 In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
  hi there,

  what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire
  mailingslist
  archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?

 Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/
 where you
 can download weekly gzipped archives of all the mailing lists since
 their
 creation.

 thanks for the hint, but it would take hours to download all those gzipped
 files, extract them and merge them.

 i really need ALL the messages of a mailinglist. of course i could use the
 gzipped files you mentioned if i had some script for downloading extracting
 and merging all those files for me.

It's relatively easy to hack one.

You can get a list of year names from the /archive/ directory itself
with curl(1) and a small amount of Python plumbing around curl:

 from subprocess import Popen as popen, PIPE
 import re
 yre = re.compile('^d.*\s(\d+)$')
 devnull = file(/dev/null)
 def years():
... curl = curl -o /dev/stdout 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/;
... ylist = []
... for line in popen(curl, shell=True, stdout=PIPE, 
stderr=devnull).stdout.readlines():
... m = yre.match(line)
... if m:
... ylist.append(int(m.group(1)))
... return ylist
...
 years()
[1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010]

Then you can grab a list of the freebsd-current archives by looping
through the list of years and looking for the list of files that match
the pattern:


ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/{year}/freebsd-current/(\d+.freebsd-current.gz)

Using a pipe to parse the output of curl you can collect a list of all
the files that match this pattern, e.g.:

 def yearfiles(year):
... base = 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/%4d/freebsd-current;
 % year
... curl = curl -o /dev/stdout %s/ % base
... flist = []
... fre = re.compile(r'^.*\D(\d+.freebsd-current.gz).*$')
... for line in popen(curl, shell=True, stdout=PIPE, 
stderr=devnull).stdout.readlines():
... m = fre.match(line)
... if m:
... flist.append(%s/%s % (base, m.group(1)))
... return flist
...
 yearfiles(1994)
[]
 yearfiles(1995)

['ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/1.freebsd-current.gz',
 ...]

Concatenating the file lists of all years and fetching each one of them
with curl is then trivial:

 ylist = years()
 ylist
[1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010]
 flist = []
 for y in ylist:
... f = yearfiles(y)
... flist = flist + f
...
 len(flist)
785

Once you have the list of all the remote gzipped files, you can loop
through the list of files once more and fetch them locally.  I'm only
going to fetch the first two files here, but feel free to fetch all of
them in your version of the script:

 flist = flist[:2]
 flist

['ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950101.freebsd-current.gz',
 
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950226.freebsd-current.gz']


 from subprocess import call
 def getfile(url):
... out = os.path.basename(url)
... retcode = call([curl, -o, out, url], stderr=devnull)
... if retcode == 0:
... print fetched %s % url
... return tuple([url, out, retcode])
...
 map(getfile, flist)
fetched 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950101.freebsd-current.gz
fetched 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950226.freebsd-current.gz
...

[('ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950101.freebsd-current.gz',
 '19950101.freebsd-current.gz', 0),
 
('ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950226.freebsd-current.gz',
 '19950226.freebsd-current.gz', 0)]


A slightly hackish script that collects all this to a more usable whole
but lacks LOTS of error checking is the following:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from subprocess import call, Popen as popen, PIPE
import os
import re
import sys

devnull = file(/dev/null)
yre = re.compile('^d.*\s(\d+)$')
fre = re.compile(r'^.*\D(\d+.freebsd-current.gz).*$')

def years():
curl = curl -o /dev/stdout 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/;
ylist = []
for line in popen(curl, shell=True, 

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
Giorgos Keramidas schrieb am 2010-03-07:
 On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best
 alexbes...@wwu.de wrote:
  Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07:
  In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
   hi there,

   what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire
   mailingslist
   archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?

  Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/
  where you
  can download weekly gzipped archives of all the mailing lists
  since
  their
  creation.

  thanks for the hint, but it would take hours to download all those
  gzipped
  files, extract them and merge them.

  i really need ALL the messages of a mailinglist. of course i could
  use the
  gzipped files you mentioned if i had some script for downloading
  extracting
  and merging all those files for me.

 It's relatively easy to hack one.

wow!!! thanks a billion. that's a great script. i pointed the vars containing
ftp sites at mirrors near me which give me better download speed and will run
the script for freebsd-current@ this night (~850 archives to pull).

thanks again. great job. :-)

alex

 You can get a list of year names from the /archive/ directory itself
 with curl(1) and a small amount of Python plumbing around curl:

  from subprocess import Popen as popen, PIPE
  import re
  yre = re.compile('^d.*\s(\d+)$')
  devnull = file(/dev/null)
  def years():
 ... curl = curl -o /dev/stdout
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/;
 ... ylist = []
 ... for line in popen(curl, shell=True, stdout=PIPE,
 stderr=devnull).stdout.readlines():
 ... m = yre.match(line)
 ... if m:
 ... ylist.append(int(m.group(1)))
 ... return ylist
 ...
  years()
 [1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
 2004, 2005,
  2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010]

 Then you can grab a list of the freebsd-current archives by looping
 through the list of years and looking for the list of files that
 match
 the pattern:

 
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/{year}/freebsd-current/(\d+.freebsd-current.gz)

 Using a pipe to parse the output of curl you can collect a list of
 all
 the files that match this pattern, e.g.:

  def yearfiles(year):
 ... base =
 
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/%4d/freebsd-current;
 % year
 ... curl = curl -o /dev/stdout %s/ % base
 ... flist = []
 ... fre = re.compile(r'^.*\D(\d+.freebsd-current.gz).*$')
 ... for line in popen(curl, shell=True, stdout=PIPE,
 stderr=devnull).stdout.readlines():
 ... m = fre.match(line)
 ... if m:
 ... flist.append(%s/%s % (base, m.group(1)))
 ... return flist
 ...
  yearfiles(1994)
 []
  yearfiles(1995)
 
 ['ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/1.freebsd-current.gz',
  ...]

 Concatenating the file lists of all years and fetching each one of
 them
 with curl is then trivial:

  ylist = years()
  ylist
 [1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010]
  flist = []
  for y in ylist:
 ... f = yearfiles(y)
 ... flist = flist + f
 ...
  len(flist)
 785

 Once you have the list of all the remote gzipped files, you can loop
 through the list of files once more and fetch them locally.  I'm only
 going to fetch the first two files here, but feel free to fetch all
 of
 them in your version of the script:

  flist = flist[:2]
  flist
 
 ['ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950101.freebsd-current.gz',
  
 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950226.freebsd-current.gz']


  from subprocess import call
  def getfile(url):
 ... out = os.path.basename(url)
 ... retcode = call([curl, -o, out, url], stderr=devnull)
 ... if retcode == 0:
 ... print fetched %s % url
 ... return tuple([url, out, retcode])
 ...
  map(getfile, flist)
 fetched
 
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950101.freebsd-current.gz
 fetched
 
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950226.freebsd-current.gz
 ...
 
 [('ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950101.freebsd-current.gz',
 '19950101.freebsd-current.gz', 0),
  
 ('ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/1995/freebsd-current/19950226.freebsd-current.gz',
  '19950226.freebsd-current.gz', 0)]


 A slightly hackish script that collects all this to a more usable
 whole
 but lacks LOTS of 

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
 hi there,
 
 what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist
 archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?

Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ where you
can download weekly gzipped archives of all the mailing lists since their
creation.

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Re: mailing list

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
John Tele2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 K you please stop sending me this spam from your account:
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Unfortunately, it's impossible to assist you with the small amount of
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Re: mailing list

2007-10-13 Thread Erich Dollansky

Hi,

Bill Moran wrote:

John Tele2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

K you please stop sending me this spam from your account:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


this guy first writes to all the lists and the complains that he gets 
answers.


I believe that it is some remote controlled Windows machine whith 
someone in control testing new Windows-clustering software.


Erich

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Re: mailing list archives

2004-12-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
John Von Essen wrote:
A few years ago I remember being able to download (from freebsd ftp
server) mail spool files for the entire years worth of messages for a
given mailing list. I would periodically, download these, parse them with
a perl script and generate a file-based directory structure of all the
message to search on.
Can you still download these? I was on ftp2.freebsd.org looking around and
I didn't see them anywhere.
FreeBSD is now using Mailman for many lists, which keeps an archive at:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions.mbox/freebsd-questions.mbox
That mbox file is 244MB in size, so I think that is what you are looking for. 
 Otherwise, consider mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly with your 
request

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Re: mailing list archives

2004-12-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 09), Chuck Swiger said:
 John Von Essen wrote:
 A few years ago I remember being able to download (from freebsd ftp
 server) mail spool files for the entire years worth of messages for a
 given mailing list. I would periodically, download these, parse them with
 a perl script and generate a file-based directory structure of all the
 message to search on.
 
 Can you still download these? I was on ftp2.freebsd.org looking around and
 I didn't see them anywhere.
 
 FreeBSD is now using Mailman for many lists, which keeps an archive at:
 
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions.mbox/freebsd-questions.mbox
 
 That mbox file is 244MB in size, so I think that is what you are looking 
 for. Otherwise, consider mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly with 
  your request

You can fetch weekly files from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ , too.

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Re: Mailing List Search function on FreeBSD website

2004-10-23 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
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| Hello all,
|
| How could I have a search capability similar to that of the FreeBSD
| website?  I thought it was a feature of pipermail, but it's not looking
| like that's the case.  I'm not very good at coding, so I was hoping
| there is some sort of port or plugin for pipermail.
You can build the mailman port with htdig support (which is was what
FreeBSD.org uses).  It's a snap to setup.  Just define WITH_HTDIG when
building mailman, then follow the included documentation (or read
Defaults.py) for enabling htdig with pipermail/mailman.
Joe
|
| TIA
|
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Re: Mailing List Search function on FreeBSD website

2004-10-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 23, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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Eric Crist wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| How could I have a search capability similar to that of the FreeBSD
| website?  I thought it was a feature of pipermail, but it's not 
looking
| like that's the case.  I'm not very good at coding, so I was hoping
| there is some sort of port or plugin for pipermail.

You can build the mailman port with htdig support (which is was what
FreeBSD.org uses).  It's a snap to setup.  Just define WITH_HTDIG when
building mailman, then follow the included documentation (or read
Defaults.py) for enabling htdig with pipermail/mailman.
Joe
Is this something I can simply do a make deinstall  make -DWITH_HTDIG 
reinstall without destroying my current mailing lists?  I'm new to the 
whole mailman/mailing list stuff.

thanks!
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Re: Mailing List Search function on FreeBSD website

2004-10-23 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
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| On Oct 23, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
|
| -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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|
| Eric Crist wrote:
| | Hello all,
| |
| | How could I have a search capability similar to that of the FreeBSD
| | website?  I thought it was a feature of pipermail, but it's not looking
| | like that's the case.  I'm not very good at coding, so I was hoping
| | there is some sort of port or plugin for pipermail.
|
| You can build the mailman port with htdig support (which is was what
| FreeBSD.org uses).  It's a snap to setup.  Just define WITH_HTDIG when
| building mailman, then follow the included documentation (or read
| Defaults.py) for enabling htdig with pipermail/mailman.
|
| Joe
|
|
| Is this something I can simply do a make deinstall  make -DWITH_HTDIG
| reinstall without destroying my current mailing lists?  I'm new to the
| whole mailman/mailing list stuff.
Should be fine, but just to be safe, you should backup your current data
if you're already using mailman.
Joe
|
| thanks!
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Re: Mailing List problem

2004-01-28 Thread Simon Barner
parahat melayev wrote:
 I don't know if it is a problem or not but
 I am unable to send e-mails to FreeBSD lists
 via my SMTP server on localhost.

The FreeBSD lists have a rather restricted setup in order to prevent
from spam. You need a fqdn, and working reverse lookup in order to have
your mails accepted (this applies also for the PR database).

If cannot fullfill these requirements, you can use an external mail
relay that has prober dns settings.

If you need further information, please be a bit more verbose:

- Which mail server software do you use?
- What is the error message?
- ...

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Re: Mailing list archive

2003-11-18 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:32:34AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Does anyone know if there is a problem with the mailing list archives at 
 http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists ? 

Yes, they aren't very good ;-)

Try http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ or http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ instead.

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Re: Mailing List Problem

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-26 08:52:48 -0700:
 Hello, I am using Sylpheed 0.9.2 as my mail client and
 when I try to send a e-mail to ANY of the FREEBSD
 mailing lists using Sylpheed it will never send. I can
 send e-mails to other mailing lists (non-freebsd ones)
 just fine but not any of the FBSD ones and the FreeBSD
 mailing lists is the main ones I care about. Hope
 someone could help me out here.

Is this still your old problem, or is the problem limited to
Sylpheed?

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Re: Mailing list was: no subject

2003-03-30 Thread taxman
On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:42 pm, skylex wrote:
 %list

The freebsd lists aren't administrated with majordomo anymore, checkout this 
link:  
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
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Re: Mailing list

2003-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
Thomas Widlundh wrote:

Hi again,
It seems like I don't get any mails from the list anymore.
It happend I got deleted at my ISP:s, and my ftp and mail parts disappeared.
Any mail to me should have been returned to the sender.
Can it be this? Am I in any way automaticly deleted from the list because of 
this, so I have to make a new subscription?
Oh, my adresses and so on are restaured to what it was.
Regards,
Thomas

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the list will automatically unsubscribe you
after a certain amount of time if you're unreachable.

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Re: mailing list software

2002-11-12 Thread Kirk Bailey
Um, may I point out a more convient MLM?

tinylist.

Web membership management, simple form- click a radio button for
subscribe/unsubscribe, fill in your email address, click SEND. You get a letter.
Reply to it. No passwords needed.

It sends you a confirming letter telling you what it did. If there is a custom
welcome/farewell message for the list, it sends you that instead. Simple. Grab
the mouse, click, choose. simple.

site:
http://www.tinylist.org/

Master menu:
http://www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLmastermenu.py

Available lists:
http://www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/TLwebmgr.py


Anthony Abby wrote:
 
 But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password
 to unsubscribe?
 
 That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the non-geek,
 mass-market crowd.
 

sure does.

 Len
 
 
Yes they do, and not to mention that, but most people will subscribe/unsubscribe from 
the
graphical interface anyway, and I think most people who are familiar with mailing 
lists will
attest, it's HORROR trying to admin a list hosted by Mailman.  Until the developers 
make the
unsubscribe feauture more pronounced in Mailman, you're always going to have lord 
knows how
many screaming people on your list who don't know how to unsubscribe.  It's 
terriblecheck
out the Redhat mailing lists sometime!

flinch...
 
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Re: mailing list software

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Ellis
  
  But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password
  to unsubscribe?
  
  That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the non-geek,
  mass-market crowd.
  

this is pretty easily changed in mailman.
a patch for passwordless unsubscribes in mailman 2.0.13 follows below...

- rob


--- Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py.orig  2002-11-12 15:36:21.140003000 -0500
+++ Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py   2002-11-12 16:02:36.610014000 -0500
@@ -511,8 +511,8 @@
 
 def ProcessUnsubscribeCmd(self, args, cmd, mail):
if not len(args):
-   self.AddError(Usage: unsubscribe password [email-address])
-   return
+   # allow unsubscribe with no password
+   pass
if len(args)  2:
self.AddError(Usage: unsubscribe password [email-address]\n
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Re: mailing list software

2002-10-22 Thread Len Conrad


I recommend Mailman:

/usr/ports/mail/mailman

It's from GNU (free!), works well, and is well supported. It installed
simply and easily for me.


But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list password 
to unsubscribe?

That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the non-geek, 
mass-market crowd.

Len


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Re: mailing list software

2002-10-22 Thread Anthony Abby
I think Listar/Ecartis is much better than Mailman.  Check it out at 
http://www.listar.org.  It's also free and has a ton of options.

Anthony

I was going to look at mail/listmanager to see if it was good enough for

I recommend Mailman:

/usr/ports/mail/mailman

It's from GNU (free!), works well, and is well supported. It installed
simply and easily for me.



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RE: mailing list software

2002-10-22 Thread Derrick Ryalls
comments below

 Subject: Re: mailing list software
 
 
 At 01:07 PM 10.22.2002 -0400, Anthony Abby wrote:
 But does a list subscriber need to find/remember and use his list 
 password
 to unsubscribe?
 
 That stupid requirement pretty much kills mailman for the non-geek,
 mass-market crowd.
 
 Len
 
 
 Yes they do, and not to mention that, but most people will
 subscribe/unsubscribe from the graphical interface anyway, 
 and I think most people who are familiar with mailing lists 
 will attest, it's HORROR trying to admin a list hosted by 
 Mailman.  Until the developers make the unsubscribe 
 feauture more pronounced in Mailman, you're always going to 
 have lord knows how many screaming people on your list who 
 don't know how to unsubscribe.  It's terrible check out 
 the Redhat mailing lists sometime!
 
 Anthony
 
 
 In fact, mailing lists are the best place to find out about 
 programs. Just watch and read for a few weeks and you'll have 
 a very good idea about what to expect. Also, look at their archives.
 
 I was considering mailman and tracked the mailing list, plus 
 have been subscribed to lists using MM and decided it was not 
 ready for prime time yet.
 
 I use majordomo which does the job well... (of course I will 
 tout what I
 use!) it's easy to operate and has a solid performance 
 record. Plus, it's free too if the is part of the criteria.
 
 Best regards,
 Jack L. Stone,
 Administrator
 
 SageOne Net
 http://www.sage-one.net
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I too use majordomo, originally I had it working with sendmail, then I
upgraded to qmail.  I maintain 2 lists with little effort.  Besides, if
it is good enough for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, it is good enough
for me.



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