• On 2004.07.15, in <20040715135923.GI24700@rezo.net>,
• "Fil" <fil@rezo.net> wrote:

As a list admin, I dream of a roster interface that would help me go fast when I have 10 people to subscribe and 10 to remove because they don't know better than "Reply"-ing to me.

I can make it up with php, with a box for search, another for "add users", another for "remove users", and so on ("change address").

However there's something that could be very useful, that would be "search fuzzy matches", for instance if <mr.bean@rezo.net> writes to me saying that he needs to be unsubscribed, I can't easily locate his subscription if it's under <bean@mail.rezo.net>. Any idea on how to do this?

This isn't very webby, but we use it a lot. (With 2500 lists, it really helps deal with those "please remove me from your list" messages.) It's probably terrible python, but it does the job.

usage: /opt/bin/grep_members.py [!] regex [list [...]] /opt/bin/grep_members.py [!] = address [list [...]]

In your example, I might do: % grep_members.py bean listname

Or, to find all lists that mr.bean is on: % grep_members.py bean

The second form is to find a precise match among the specified lists, or among all lists. It also DTRT if called as grep_owners.py instead.

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