[Mailman-Developers] DNS and mailing lists -- an idea

2001-11-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
too hard, since a false dump isn't too painful. So, am I missing something obvious here? Will an MTA *without* a caching server actually be affected less (because it's making direct lookup calls to the zone servers in question)? It's an are

Re: [Mailman-Developers] handling duplicate mails

2001-10-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
reliable, and I suspect I'm not alone. People who get duplicate copies because senders don't understand how to deal with mailing lists, or who won't switch to a *mailer* that understands how to deal with mailing lists, should have the pain of the recipients we'

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: handling duplicate mails

2001-10-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
it isn't just me. Note that, in the latter case, it's possible that you could use formail (from the procmail package) to drop the non-list copy, assuming you got the list copy first -- but that rarely happens, for semi-obvious reasons. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] handling duplicate mails

2001-10-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
pain of the > > recipients we're trying to protect here transferred to *them*. > > Can I have you answer the Sourceforge tickets^H^H^H^H^H^Hflames from people > who are telling me that their life absolutely ends if they can't have the > reply-to munging on their list

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

2001-12-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads down with VERP, by it's very nature. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

2001-12-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:00:18AM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:17:08PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: > > > The problem isn't making them work with any MTA -- that's actuall

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

2001-12-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
> a lot more interesting. And once you start adding in this functionality, you > can bring along VERP basically for free, whether or not you use a > VERP-capable MTA. At the expense of loading the wire, the MTA, *and* the MLM. How big are your lists, Chuq? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ash

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

2001-12-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:37:36 -0500 > Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads > > down with VERP, by it's very nature. > &g

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

2001-12-07 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ast-Ethernet, then the size of his uplink pretty much doesn't matter? ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: way to minimize IO load with MTAsupported VERP

2001-12-07 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ination MTA to put the destination email address, would be the most flexible approach. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Th

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: way to minimize IO load with MTAsupported VERP

2001-12-07 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ESMTP extension then? I was not aware that ESMTP already *had* an extension for VERP; so, "yes", I guess. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RF

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: way to minimize IO load with MTAsupported VERP

2001-12-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
e you're clear on this, but just in case: no, I don't think > ESMTP *does* have any other extension, but there's clearly one > in some stage of proposal by the Courier guys, and apparently > Wietse latched on to it too. Ah; no, I was *not* clear on that; thanks for the clarificati

Re: [Mailman-Developers] ZMailman 2.1 preview

2001-12-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
who need to run mailing lists, rather than Mailman people, not that it isn't a cool hack. I think I like Zope, too; I just can't get it to stand still long enough to learn it. Maybe I'm getting old... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] ZMailman 2.1 preview

2001-12-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:22:33PM -0600, Stephan Richter wrote: > At 11:10 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > I don't understand Zope; can someone describe why I might want this, > > > what it buys me, etc. (like a sales brochure)? > > > >I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] simple feature

2002-01-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ins something weird I saw on a list the other day; thanks. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Strange problem after a year of service

2002-01-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
sentence is just *beyond* funny. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Floridahttp://baylink.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Announce] Once again, fame and fortune can be yours

2002-01-29 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
d > other less-public lists for longer. I'm not too sure what else I should > say by way of introduction, so I guess I'll skip the "my life in a > nutshell" essay for tonight. :) Aw, *darn*. :-) Welcome aboard. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: Theoretical way to minimize IO load with MTA supported VERP

2002-01-29 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:20:35AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads down > > > with VERP, by it's

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ers not to make them easy fodder for the harvesters by publishing > archives in an easy to harvest format... Look up "enabler". This is an old argument. I don't know that I concur that reducing the pain threshold of people who might otherwise have an incentive to do *usef

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
can help with. > > All it takes is code. Volunteering? (grin) Because there's not a sufficiently strong method of authenticating that the person trying to change the address is actually the *user*? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
PROTECTED] form *anywhere in the HTML code that's returned*, I can sift it out. You'll have to forgive me, but this sort of 'too-clever by all' solution gives me hives. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:47:16AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/18/02 10:37 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You'll have to forgive me, but this sort of 'too-clever by all' solution > > gives me hives. > >

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
e former may not be especially mainstream, but anyone who ignores the latter category (not to mention my blind friend's screen reader) does so at their peril. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Ba

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:04:54AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/18/02 7:15 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yup, and so does every web page on the net, and it will keep happening > > until other things outside our control change marked

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:46:24AM -0500, Damien Morton wrote: > > Jay R. Ashworth writes: > > Well, neither the JavaScript *nor* the picture are going to > > do me much good on the two browsers I use most often: Lynx > > 2.8.3 in a konsole window... and GoWeb 6 on m

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ess for an off-llist contact is too steep a hill to climb. I figure if it's a "public" mailing list (by which I mean, one to which anyone is invited to belong), then such inquiries are the price you pay, so I think this is a reasonable analogy, and t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:52:40AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/19/02 7:09 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was wondering how long it would be before someone brought up the case > >> for Lynx. Blind people I had not though abo

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:17:58AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/20/02 9:45 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While I'll happily tell the "I don't like cookies" people to get over it, > > > > Well

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/20/02 9:31 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I still think it's important to keep firmly uppermost in our minds > > here that the spam is not *caused* by the mailin

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:42:34PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/20/02 1:18 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And burglary is not caused by my owning nice things, either. It's caused by > >> burglars. But that's no e

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ddress out*. > I'm not telling admins what their policies need to be, but I do think > Mailman needs to understand it's role as a "best practices" tool -- and I do > feel strongly that whatever an admin does, they do so

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
l take effect. Of course, it's pretty much immaterial, since if someome quotes you, *their* message may not have the header. Are we beginning to understand the scope of this issue? :-)_ Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:49:53PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/20/02 5:36 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, you're saying because you protect yourself from the spammers, that > >> EVERYONE should, too? > > > &

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
"admin mailto problem" with the "list member mailto problem"; they have fairly widely diverging solutions. Could we please be a bit more cautious about that? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technica

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t as "smart". I don't think that requires a whole helluva lot of brains, myself. > Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties > are largely ceremonial. Are you the guy who goes in the convenience store to get him cigarettes? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ke > > arguing the advantages of vi in the emacs news groups. > > Agreed, appologies to recidivists, luddites and lynx users :) Nice to know that you understand now that those are three separate groups. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
quot;talking in circle" is a bit digingenuous, at best. Please expand. > else if no > end of conversation Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 Th

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
which side of the "enabler" argument, discussed ad nauseum last week, you come down on. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Sunc

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ther thoughts in this thread. Well, I think the argument was over what constituted 'better', on which topic I think Chuq and I disagree a bit. ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:23:59AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/25/02 8:56 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That said, my normal daily mail load is almost 300 these days, > > including 9 mailing lists, and my spamcount is about 15;

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

2002-02-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
of security sense) myself, but in for a penny, in for a pound, I guess... yeah, I'd ignore the argument. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 210

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
o vend one or the > other (probably the obfuscated version) from a cgi. No, but the performance reasons aren't as much of an issue now... > Nobody's even mentioned #5, which are available publically via the > "Visit Subscriber List" button, or the email command &q

Re: [Mailman-Developers] following standards in signature-syntax

2002-02-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
e* signatures" argument... but go back and read all the 'enabler' arguments from last week. ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Sun

Re: [Zest-devel] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Pipermail replacement? Zest!

2002-02-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
d a lot of people. But nobody's cared enough to > code it and own it. Searching doesn't belong inside of a list archiver that has a web interface -- why do the same work twice? There are half a dozen or more web search engine packages which can be pointed at

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
difficult to tell what the original subscriber name was sometime. This > would alleviate that. *Whoa* yeah! Any error message that doesn't include the parameter of a bad call should cause it's writer to be shot. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
mail, even > with all its worts. Until Zest is a solution... > > - I'll note that one of the early design decisions for Pipermail was > > that public archives should be vended directly from the file system > > for performance reasons. That

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
tary, in fact; that stack of paper lives in a box in my van. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay,

[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Zest-devel] Re: Pipermail replacement? Zest!

2002-02-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:26:11AM -0600, David Champion wrote: > On 2002.02.26, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Searching doesn't belong inside of a list archiver that has a web > > interfa

Re: [Zest-devel] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Pipermail replacement? Zest!

2002-02-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 2/26/02 9:17 AM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Searching doesn't belong inside of a list archiver that has a web > > interface -- why do the same work twice? There are

[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Zest-devel] Re: Pipermail replacement? Zest!

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ething, but if so, I still don't see it. I believe that what you're missing is up in the top of the message -- unless *I'm* missing something. Pipermail is *not*, so far as I've been able to tell, "an integrated part of Mailman". Is it, Barry? For the purposes of Davi

[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Zest-devel] Re: Pipermail replacement? Zest!

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:04:06PM -0600, David Champion wrote: > On 2002.02.26, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... and a generic web search engine, running locally on that machine, > > with access to th

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
y conduct business, if you let them; after all, *everything* is a legal exposure. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
e, one > to the list machinery and another to a Real Human. Yeah, that would work, too. Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s to complain to. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Floridahttp://baylink.pitas.com

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ntly. Also, that way bounce handling happens for those sorts of > notification messages in the "normal" way. Yup, we're talking about different things. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical St

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
sider the user "part of mailman" mean that you don't think it's important that they have a way to contact the server admin when everything breaks? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff B

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
e specific software problems. Aw, c'mon; this is horseshit, y'all. If you're planning an outdoor event, I assure you, the weather is the *top* thing on your mind*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the T

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Protecting email addresses from spam harvesters

2002-02-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
lease make an oblique nazi referenc,e so I can declare Godwin's > law and we move on? Nope, sorry, the war march drawing in the Tufte book is the wrong war. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Missing footers with latest CVS

2002-03-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ould corrupt PGP signatures by doing something like this? I'm pretty sure that the answers there are a) I do and b) we would. PGP almost certainly won't tolerate rewriting of the body, in much the same way that IPsec won't tolerate NAT rewrites on the channel. Cheers,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

2002-03-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
tion architectures which utilize it... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Floridahttp://b

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

2002-03-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
varied experience with email administration causes me to characterise such email as "more frangible". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Su

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

2002-03-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
quot; > > I don't agree, certainly not with this issue. > > More generally -- the list IS the members -- not the admin or tools used. Thriller from Manila, part 2. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Tec

Re: [Mailman-Developers] big list

2002-03-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
the copies in memory when talking to the smtpd. > These copies would get gc'd after delivery, but we'd still have to > play the game that I think Marc brought up about not blasting too many > messages down the same socket connection. This is the 'range' dilemma. We nee

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

2002-03-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:01:10PM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote: > "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:40:11AM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote: > > > While, OTOH I agree these more robust formats are the future, it's > > > insane to

Re: [Mailman-Developers] moderation...

2002-03-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
I think that's a good idea. It probably needs a Rude Solo Light, though. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think

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

2002-03-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
mean "stripping any possible reply-to added by the writer"? I've read it twice now, and I still can't decide which I think you mean -- except that the list context was the latter. I'm on Rosenthal's side concerning the former... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashwort

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Headers and footers not appearing

2002-03-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
FC822 has been supplanted by many many RFCs, but yes, we should > be treating the charset and content-type both as non-case-sensitive. You consider "RFC 2822" to be "many, many" RFC's? Cheers -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Modifications to msg

2002-03-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
x Answer Gang list at ssc.com uses multi-player Reply-to's. It confused me at first, because I keep Mutt set to prompt, and it only prompts for the *first* address in the list -- subsequently giving you and edit-mode prompt showing all the reply-to's, which

Re: [Mailman-Developers] My extensions to Mailman for threading

2002-03-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
nvite criticism. I hate the Jacuzzi. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Does anyone have digests working with mailman 2.1b1?

2002-03-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ents. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Floridahttp://baylink.pitas.com +1

[Mailman-Developers] Silly mailman question

2002-04-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
yet, is it? This is, of course, a paying gig... and it's not impossible I might sub out the "interface the back of Mailman to my database" part, particularly if it can be done generally enough to make accessing filePro data from Python easy, since that's something

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Silly mailman question

2002-04-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:24:38PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JRA> The problem is that they're already in a database (filePro > JRA> for Unix on SCO 5, on a machine behind

[Mailman-Developers] Rah, Barry!

2002-04-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:58:28PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > I'd *much* rather be working with Barry than DJB, thank you :-) I'd like to second, third, and *fourth* this. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Developers] Passwords

2002-05-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Ok, stupid question time again. What's the latest word on a direct "unsubscribe" link that does *not* require a password? Is that in 2.1? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical St

[Mailman-Developers] Another stupid question

2002-05-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
a default email host and URL host... but they didn't get picked up on the build for some reason; I had to key them in manually. Is there somewhere else they are? Do I have to reinstall *again*? I'm losing my hair here... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Another stupid question

2002-05-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:11:39AM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 13:22:53 -0400 > Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I seem to have managed to get CVS installed and running (and finally > > ironed out my DNS issues), but for some reason

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Another stupid question

2002-05-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:27:58PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JRA> Defaults.py *has* a default email host and URL host... but > JRA> they didn't get picked up on the bui

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Another stupid question

2002-05-23 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:33:16PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JRA> Can't remember it if I don't know it. Thanks. > > Ah cool. It's an important point that should g

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Another stupid question

2002-05-23 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:35:43PM -0700, John W Baxter wrote: > At 23:21 -0400 5/22/2002, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:27:58PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > ... > >> So, you need to fix host_name (and probably web_page_url). Only the > >>

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Another stupid question

2002-05-23 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:02:11AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JRA> Yeah, yeah; just as soon as I rush the rush job that I'm > JRA> rushing to rush now. Did you ever actu

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-558988 ] bad performancefor big queue dirs

2002-05-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
hat I've seen, and almost *no* meters. It's a Subsystem; it needs that stuff. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-558633 ] Blocked queueafter fight with Majordomo

2002-05-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ly. Each new copy should have something > different, a new comment, a changed status, etc. Yeah, and unlike BugZilla, sourceFnords' thing puts the mods at the *bottom* of the message... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

[Mailman-Developers] Oops...

2002-06-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ld fashioned way subj = 'confirm ' + cookie sender = requestaddr I added: VERP_CONFIRMATIONS=1 JRA_INVITE_SUBJECT='This will be the subject line' to mm_cfg.py. It's probably worth noting that add_members still works fine. Anyone g

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Oops...

2002-06-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:51:59PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Ok; Barry's busy closing on a house. This time, to the list... And apologies for not unwiring the References header... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Mailman-Developers] Problem with invite confirmations in CVS

2002-06-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Any ideas? And, BTW: is there anyway to get the Python traceback to show the damned *values* of the arguments? Am I the only one who's noticed that the current scheme is almost useless? ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Scrubbing Mailman lists

2002-07-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
y 100% verified opt-in (i.e., > that didn't originate with Mailman's confirm subscription feature turned > on). That sounds an awful lot like the "invitation" feature in 2.1. If you haven't already looked at that, take a gander, and see what you think. Cheers, -- jra -

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
l* only got about half a dozen a day. Now, it's 25-50. People are known to say "it's not my fault", when, damnit, it *is* their fault. I'd say we need to make damned sure the problem is what we *think* it is before we "fix" that. Do you have documentary evidence,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
l. Glad *I'm* not the architect. > > CVR> Happy Macworld Expo week, all. If you need me, I'll be in the > > CVR> war room, beating my head against a wall. > > > > Any chance you could make it down to DC for a side trip? We could > > have a Mail

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:21:17PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 7/16/02 3:55 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm voting in favor of the lynch mobs you mention later. > > > And this is a *perfect* case that supports what has bee

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:57:44PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 7/16/02 5:49 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:07:48PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > >> in contact with the author of a message? If the arch

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:11:43PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 7/16/02 5:57 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But without rules, you can't teach the recipient what's right (with a cattle > >> prod, if necessary),

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:25:44PM -0700, John W Baxter wrote: > At 20:49 -0400 7/16/2002, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >But *why isn't this the recipients' problem*? > > Because the recipient gives up, and takes her ISP payments elsewhere, or > really gives up and t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
n 2 years, since a bogus bounce dropped me and I didn't bother re-upping." Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:33:20PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 7/16/02 9:22 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, ok... but in a case like that, your mailer logs would likely have > > the appropriate information. But still, as rare a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:44:41PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 7/16/02 9:49 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can document your policies, and the person who wants to sign up can > > decide whether they can deal. > > I don't

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
TA traffic, have you. It will be illegal, but more importantly, it simply won't *run* -- you can't store data on the hard drive if you don't have the encryption keys to talk to it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
JRA> We are on the critical path, folks. I know you know that, > JRA> but the explicit reminder isn't going to get me fired. > JRA> Fail-safe isn't just for aerospace anymore. > > In a way I agree, but by the same token, email is such a flakey system >

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:21:15AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JRA> Barry? You've been cowering in the corner there, letting us > JRA> imitate Spenser and Hawk working

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:56:16PM -0700, Satya wrote: > On Jul 16, 2002 at 22:44, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > >On 7/16/02 9:49 PM, "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >the policies up. Unless, of course, your policy is "you're screwed if yo

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

2002-07-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
gt; > Hmm, not a use case I've ever encountered. "localhost.localdomain" is > about as wacky as it gets. Well, diagnosing local DNS configuration, mostly. A name that does *not* end in a dot is supposed to be an invitation to apply the search list f

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