Re: [Mailman-Developers] Bug? Refused subscription confirmation

2006-03-17 Thread JC Dill
Mark Sapiro wrote: Giuliano Gavazzi wrote: To: mylist-confirm+8a671672b88489848cd212b368d290cc343af848 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the problem. You have VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes so the confirmation is From: and the user's reply should be To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the user's MUA

[Mailman-Developers] Access options for command line tasks

2006-01-03 Thread JC Dill
Barry Warsaw wrote: I'm actually thinking we need /less/ magic in command line scripts, especially for typical user and admin tasks, because I think increasingly, fewer people have access to the command line (or know what to do with it when they've got it). Wearing my product manager's hat

Re: [Mailman-Developers] On allowing any list member to be an email moderator

2006-01-01 Thread JC Dill
R. Bernstein wrote: Please allow me explain why I initially posted to mailman-developer. Your reasons make perfect sense. I don't want you to think I was saying your reasons were wrong when I mentioned in my prior post that I might not have approved your initial post. Just that there is

Re: [Mailman-Developers] On allowing any list member to be an email moderator

2006-01-01 Thread JC Dill
R. Bernstein wrote: I guess sometimes things are not what they may seem initally, so many thanks for the detailed explanation; it all makes sense. It is also interesting to learn that the GNU mailman mailing lists have the same problems as other GNU lists. But it sounds like the GNU mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] On allowing any list member to be an email moderator

2005-12-31 Thread JC Dill
Brad Knowles wrote: But there's a problem with multiple moderators, one that we have on the mailman-users and mailman-developers lists ourselves -- in addition to many other lists hosted on python.org. In short, the problem is getting all the moderators to follow the same moderation

[Mailman-Developers] On-topic-ness for -users and -dev

2005-12-15 Thread JC Dill
Brad Knowles wrote: Unless you're talking about Python code you've developed to implement this feature, or commenting on Python code that someone else has developed to implement this feature, I'm pretty certain that this discussion belongs on mailman-users and not here. When

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Spam/Scam button

2005-12-15 Thread JC Dill
Nigel Metheringham wrote: While agreeing that MM is not really a good spam control place, my life would be made easier if:- * Marking a message as spam killed all other messages sent by the same sender address to that and all other lists currently awaiting moderation.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread JC Dill
John W. Baxter wrote: Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Is there any reason not to add web_page_url to the Max configurable options in the admin GUI? Right below host_name Max in the general category would be a good place. Yes, there is a reason. It is the same

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Sibling list

2005-11-05 Thread JC Dill
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Tokio == Tokio Kikuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tokio - Is the terminology 'sibling' appropriate? I hesistate to give it a +1 because I know I think differently from most people, but FWIW I *did* guess what it does from that name. Ditto. jc

[Mailman-Developers] Head's UP - we changed administrivia settings for the mailman-users and -dev lists

2005-06-24 Thread JC Dill
Because the mailman-users and mailman-developers lists frequently discuss administrivia matters and because most users on these lists know how to properly email the list server for administrivia tasks, most administrivia filter matches to these lists are false positives. We have just changed

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Head's UP - we changed administrivia settings for the mailman-users and -dev lists

2005-06-24 Thread JC Dill
Brad Knowles wrote: At 4:35 PM -0400 2005-06-24, Barry Warsaw wrote: Just out of curiosity, what was the reason of the change? Does it drastically decrease the server load or the something else? I think it's primarily to reduce the workload of the volunteer moderators. There are

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Search members bug?

2005-05-14 Thread JC Dill
for the different characters only contain the get variable letter and not findmember which is the variable posted by the search form. Have anyone else had the same problem? Would be nice with a fix for this. JC Dill mentioned the same thing to me in private email. Jimmy's bug report

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Search members bug?

2005-05-14 Thread JC Dill
Barry Warsaw wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:30, Mark Sapiro wrote: At least since 2.1.4 I think unfortunately, we're going to have to postpone fixing this until after 2.1.6. We /really/ need to get this release out to fix the security issues. OK. Can we document the search

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring

2005-05-12 Thread JC Dill
Barry Warsaw wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 04:45, Fil wrote: I would see it that way, in the Archiving section of admin : Archiving on a foreign system : --- prevent archiving on foreign systems yes [] no [x] (adds a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring

2005-05-06 Thread JC Dill
Brad Knowles wrote: At 7:17 PM +0900 2005-05-06, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Maybe you could make it part of the user's configuration. Then the list master could default it to X-No-Archive: yes; individual users could turn it to no if they want to, including on a message by message

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring

2005-04-30 Thread JC Dill
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The second is that this patch evidently constitutes a significant endorsement of The Mail Archive. As I understand Jeff's post, he went to the trouble of asking Lars if he would like a similar setup added for Gmane, patch to be coded by Jeff || Jeff. I have to admit

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring

2005-04-30 Thread JC Dill
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: JC == JC Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC I personally don't see it as being a significant endorsement. JC AIUI, it's a patch that allows 2 software programs to work JC well together. My understanding is that the programs already work well together

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Patch for Mail Archive mirroring

2005-04-30 Thread JC Dill
Tobias Eigen wrote: - New third party archiving option that uses The Mail Archive. The implementation subscribes or unsubscribes the archive@mail-archive.com address from the subscriber list. I find this whole discussion fascinating. I've been thinking about these types of possibilities for

Re: making Mailman CAN-SPAM compliant (was Re:[Mailman-Developers] Hashing member passwords in config.pck)

2005-02-16 Thread JC Dill
Adrian Bye wrote: If someone wanted to pay large sums of money to make an open source Yahoo! Groups-beating package, and pay people to work on that as their full-time job, we might be able to change this situation -- in time. We've previously had conversations about some Yahoo groups

[Mailman-Developers] Your pending subscription request to mailman-developers - more info needed, please reply ASAP (second request)

2005-01-22 Thread JC Dill
Hello, We have set the mailman-developers list to require list admin approval for membership requests because of a recent problem with some people subscribing to this list and then posting messages that belong elsewhere. Can you please share with us your background with mailman and your purpose

[Mailman-Developers] Your pending subscription request to mailman-developers - more info needed, please reply ASAP

2005-01-22 Thread JC Dill
Hello, We have set the mailman-developers list to require list admin approval for membership requests because of a recent problem with some people subscribing to this list and then posting messages that belong elsewhere. Can you please share with us your background with mailman and your purpose

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Your pending subscription request to mailman-developers - more info needed, please reply ASAP

2005-01-22 Thread JC Dill
oops. Apologies for typo-ing the cc on these emails. jc ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Unsubscribe:

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [Fwd: [vendor-sec] Weak auto-generated passwords in Mailman]

2004-12-22 Thread JC Dill
Florian Weimer wrote: Last time I checked, Mailman lables its member-only archives private, and the implicit promise to keep things posted to the list private is not kept if the software assigns easily guessed to new members. I can only repeat that Mailman's current behavior surprises your users