Good info! Thanks, Chris!<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Chris Calloway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbc@unc.edu" target="_blank">cbc@unc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
A reminder of a few things concerning the TriZPUG email list:<br>
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1) The TriZPUG email list is hosted by the Python Software Foundation at <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a>. Python.org email lists are managed by the MailMan package written in Python. MailMan is the most popular email list management package in the world and is part of the GNU project. Isn't it cool to eat your own dog food? Isn't it cool most of the rest of world eats out dog food?<br>
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2) Python.org's MailMan instance uses sensible default settings such as the 40KB limit on attachments so as not to bloat list archives with attachments. It has long been accepted netiquette that if you need to distribute a file via email, then you should host your file yourself and provide a link to your hosted file rather than attaching it to your email, just like you should use Pastebin when sharing code on IRC.<br>
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3) Like most email lists managers, it is MailMan's sensible default to only allow mail from subscribed email addresses to pass through to the other members of the list, so that you will not be getting spam from this email list. If you are subscribed to this email list with one email address, but attempt to post from a different email address, your post will not go through to the list.<br>
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If you prefer to read the list through one email address, but post through others, then subscribe all the email addresses you wish to post from and set the "Mail delivery" option to "disabled" on your subscription options for each of thos post-only email addresses at:<br>
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<a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/trizpug" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/<u></u>mailman/options/trizpug</a><br>
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I have allowed a few posts to pass through the moderation queue lately which fell afoul of the above reminders. But I don't intend to do that indefinitely, especially after reminding. These are fairly normal email list defaults for the large majority of all email lists. The email list also default to echoing your posts back to you on the list unless you request otherwise in your subscription options. So if you don't see your post echoed back to you by the list, your post has likely been dumped in the moderation queue for one of the above reasons.<br>
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To help you figure that out, I have changed one of the global defaults for the entire email list. This option is called "Send mail to poster when their posting is held for approval (respond_to_post_requests)?" So now if your post goes in the moderation queue, you'll get an email about it, and hopefully the moderation notification will say why.<br>
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If you get one of those moderation notifications, rather than tell me about it, please fix the situation the moderation notification tells you the problem is on your end. Because I will likely just start deleting posts held in the moderation queue now that they are accumulating at the rate of a few per day. I have been sending out personalized reminders to offenders when a post hits the moderation queue. But I think that needs to change with this new list option.<br>
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Thank you and Happy Pythoneering.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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