Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: Stephen, with all due respect for the work you put into your post, I think it goes a bit overboard in the other direction. If I can pose a question in 6 or 7 lines of text, do I really need to read a couple of hundred lines of instruction? It's under 100 lines,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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[Mailman-Users] Iphone and Mailman

2009-12-18 Thread Jan Behrens
Hello, I'm using mailman 2.1.9 on a suse11 linux server with qmail und i found a strange behaviour: whenever i send an email to the list via the mail.app on my IPhone, sent images are lost. when i send the same email to that list with Mail on my macbook, everything is okay. since

Re: [Mailman-Users] Iphone and Mailman

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jan Behrens wrote: whenever i send an email to the list via the mail.app on my IPhone, sent images are lost. when i send the same email to that list with Mail on my macbook, everything is okay. since mail works normally and mail.app send its pictures via email to other people, it seems

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:17 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Howver, thinking about it further, there's one thing I don't like about it. It's OK if the people posting are list admins or moderators, but if you have othwers who should be able to post to the list, you don't necessarily want to give

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searching across lists and making global changes

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's better to post using the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's better to post using the

[Mailman-Users] Code comments

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Given that definitive documentation for Mailman isn't really consolidated in one place, I often find that the code comments in the Mailman program files (~mailman/Mailman/*) can be very helpful in answering questions or solving problems with Mailman. I've worked with code in many languages that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Code comments

2009-12-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I've worked with code in many languages that is so cryptically commented, with variable names that were so non-descriptive (Dan Bernstein's qmail code comes to mind) as to be totally useless if one wanted to look under the hood for help.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Just to be clear, the presence or absence of an email address in the owner or moderator attributes of a list has nothing to do with who can do what. It only controls where notices are sent and what appears in web page footers. It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Just to be clear, the presence or absence of an email address in the owner or moderator attributes of a list has nothing to do with who can do what. It only controls where notices are sent and what appears in web page footers. It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: Is there any way to nullify the moderator password altogether? Does submitting the passwords page with an empty field for the mod pw accomplish this? You can't remove a moderator password through the GUI. You could always enter some obscure string that you will

Re: [Mailman-Users] Iphone and Mailman

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Dec-2009, at 10:56, Jan Behrens wrote: whenever i send an email to the list via the mail.app on my IPhone, sent images are lost. I just tested this from my iPhone and the image was posted just fine. Headers look like this: Return-Path: mylist-bounces+*munged*=*munged*@*munged*.com