Re: [Mailman-Users] monster created! untangling many lists with many subscribers?
We're running mailing lists for one school within a university. The school has several hundred subscribers (personnel) split amongst faculty, staff and students, a number of different institutes and programs, all spread over 6 different geographic locations. There are members of each institute at each location. There are members of each program at each location, and within each institute. Each location, institute and program has faculty, staff, and students. We have been asked to create a list for essentially every different permutation; all faculty, all faculty at location A, all faculty at location A in program B, all faculty at location A in institute B and program C, all staff ... you get the point. We keep several hundred lists up to date by sourcing the membership of each list from our school database. There's enough info in the database to figure out, for example - a list of students taking each module - a list of staff responsible for each module - a list of staff in each location - a list of staff on each grade and so on and so on. In other words - we can create and keep up to date dozens of lists that no-one will ever use :-) We then use CVS to send updates from the database in the form of files to the mailman server, and use the sync_members command to update the membership every night thus: #!/bin/sh # #Update mailman list memberships from flat files # PATH=your path here export PATH export elistdir=your list path here/elists export elistdir for i in `ls $elistdir `; do echo $i your mailman path here/bin/sync_members -w=no -a=no -f $elistdir/$i $i done It's a bit clunky but it works fine. The main problem is - moderating the dratted lists. You seriously don't want to have to do that yourself. Not even to start with! My advice is to give each group of lists a list-owner and send mail for that list-owner to a shared mailbox and let local admin staff get on with the moderation duties. cheers! M -- 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] can I reset the list-admin passwords of many lists at the same time?
At 8:55 am -0700 9/17/03, Con wrote: You can update the MM site password using mmsitepass located in the ~mailman/bin directory Hi - thanks, but I was hoping there was some way of updating several ( well, lots) of list passwords at once, without using the site password, if you know what I mean. Thanks for replying M con On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:04 AM, Morna Findlay wrote: Hi all. As we have many lists owned by the same list-master, up to now we've just used the site password to moderate these lists and set up the lists with any odl gobbledegook as the password. Now we want to pass on the moderation to a member of staff who doesn't need to know the sit password. Question - can we reset the list-admin passwords pr 200+ lists all at once? Please say yes! cheers! Morna -- 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/cwieland%40uci.edu -- 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] setting lots of list admin passwords at once
Thanks to Anand for his set_list_pass script at: http://www.progsoc.org/~wildfire/code/ Does just the job! Morna -- 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] can I reset the list-admin passwords of many lists at the same time?
Hi all. As we have many lists owned by the same list-master, up to now we've just used the site password to moderate these lists and set up the lists with any odl gobbledegook as the password. Now we want to pass on the moderation to a member of staff who doesn't need to know the sit password. Question - can we reset the list-admin passwords pr 200+ lists all at once? Please say yes! cheers! Morna -- 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/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
