Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email is (still) a good idea...

2002-03-21 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Frederick Noronha wrote: > (ii) You raised an important point: maybe Mailman would be more useful if it > had a "block all attachments" option. This would avoid virus... we still > have Windows-based readers on our lists ;-) There are filters available which do this for you (

[Mailman-Users] Commands via email is (still) a good idea...

2002-03-21 Thread Frederick Noronha
i Ed, I agree with most of your views. (i) Like you, I'm shifting over from Majordomo. While I find Mailman great (and affordable, important for us in a Third World country like India), I wish I could manage more tasks via email. With bandwidth being costly and slow here, one has to wait maybe up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-15 Thread John W Baxter
At 23:25 -0500 3/15/2002, Jon Carnes wrote: >Now, the email stat's would be interesting! That would be fun to write up, >especially a top 10 user category, showing actual number of posts and % of >total posts. Should be fairly easy to do. I suspect that list populations would vary in their acce

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Yes webalyzer (and many other open source products) work well at a documenting and showing you web usage. They are all designed to work primarily with Apache, but of course can be coerced into working for just about any webserver that records access in their logs. Now, the email stat's would

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-15 Thread Frederick Noronha
Yes, I guess so. I'm a non-techie. Could webalyzer be linked up with Mailman? What about email stats? Number of messages sent? Activity levels? Average length of messages? Most number of postings -- from whom? Etc... On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > So all you really want *is* webalyze

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-14 Thread Jon Carnes
ROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:37 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email... > Statistics like (i) who visited the site (ii) on which days of the week > (iii) using which browser (iv) and which OS (v) maybe even which articles > were mos

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-14 Thread Frederick Noronha
Statistics like (i) who visited the site (ii) on which days of the week (iii) using which browser (iv) and which OS (v) maybe even which articles were most read... (vi) also how many readers are online at the moment... I was amazed to find that PHPnuke (or is it PostNuke) offers such interesting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Carnes
> > Secondly, can the webpage generated by Mailman be made a little more > > ambitious to allow (i) uploading photographs (ii) offering us stats, as > > PHPnuke does? > > It will do neither, and there are no plans I know off to add that > functionality. > > Marc This sounds like it would be a nic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:39:18AM +0530, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used to do it > with Majordomo and Yahoogroups, but they are both difficult in other > ways) instead of having to log on via the Net? Mailman 2.1 which will be out soon a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
Frederick> Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used Frederick> to do it with Majordomo and Yahoogroups, but they are both Frederick> difficult in other ways) instead of having to log on via the Frederick> Net? Yup... Try sending a message to the list's -requ

[Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Frederick Noronha
Hi Guys, I'm from India, where Internet access is (still) slow and telephones (for dial-ups) are rather noisy. So, email access is preferable to trying to log-onto the Web. To compound matters, I live in a village. Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used to do it with Major

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email?

2002-02-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ben Kempner wrote: > I've tried both help just in the subject, just the body, both subject and > message, as the admin, as user, nothing seems to work. I get no error > message I just simply don't get an email. a) 'help' has to be in the subject b) it works as a subscribed user c) m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email?

2002-02-19 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ben Kempner wrote: > I tried this several times and never got an email back. I've checked > everything three times it seems like, but nothing seems to work to get it to > send me help. What happens when you send a message to -request@ with 'help' in the subject? Help us help you. What err

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email?

2002-02-19 Thread Ben Kempner
f Neubauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email? > "Ben Kempner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where can I find documentation (or can anyone tell me?) on how

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email?

2002-02-01 Thread Detlef Neubauer
"Ben Kempner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find documentation (or can anyone tell me?) on how to > unsubscribe/subscribe people to my mailing list via emails instead > of the web-interface? Send a mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address with the word "help" in to the body or subject.

[Mailman-Users] Commands via email?

2002-01-31 Thread Ben Kempner
Where can I find documentation (or can anyone tell me?) on how to unsubscribe/subscribe people to my mailing list via emails instead of the web-interface?   Thanks, Ben