Mass subscription failed / R-sig-QA mailing list

"Jim" == Jim Garrett <Jim_Garrett@bd.com> on Fri, 16 May 2003 16:34:00 -0400 writes:
Jim> Hi Martin, Seeing the message below, I had the
Jim> impression that I was subscribed to the mailing list,
Jim> when perhaps I wasn't. At least, I sent a message to
Jim> the list and didn't receive it, so I thought I wasn't
Jim> signed up (maybe the list is intelligent enough not to
Jim> send me my own messages...). So I subscribed, and all
Jim> seems well.
no, not from here. If I look at the members list, I only see the 6 people that have been subscribed for many many months, but not all the new ones I subscribed on May 7 -- nor your new subscription as of May 15. I'm very much startled and even shocked about such a problem -- that I haven't seen in the past for the many other mailman lists we manage here successfully.
If I read the "subscribe" log file (of mailman) which tells me about the subscription it `did' :
May 07 09:16:30 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "Jim_Garrett@bd.com" <>
May 07 09:16:30 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "Rob.Balshaw@syreon.com" <>
May 07 09:16:30 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "barker@medtap.com" <>
May 07 09:16:30 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "fharrell@virginia.edu" <>
May 07 09:16:31 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com" <>
May 07 09:16:31 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "luke@inpharmatica.co.uk" <>
May 07 09:16:31 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch" <>
May 07 09:16:31 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz" <>
May 07 09:16:31 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "partha_bagchi@hgsi.com" <>
May 07 09:16:32 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "rossini@blindglobe.net" <>
May 07 09:16:32 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "rreeve@liposcience.com" <>
May 07 09:16:32 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "tura@centroin.com.br" <>
May 07 09:16:32 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "v_bill_pikounis@merck.com" <>
May 07 09:16:32 2003 (23390) r-sig-qa: new "werner_engl@baxter.com" <>
May 15 22:05:38 2003 (20223) r-sig-qa: pending Jim Garrett <jim_garrett@bd.com> 198.232.248.8
May 15 22:13:52 2003 (20630) r-sig-qa: new "jim_garrett@bd.com" <Jim Garrett>
everything looks fine, but when I then look at the members lists, nobody new one is there....
Jim> I wonder if it's possible that some people think they
Jim> are subscribed when in fact they are not. Could you
Jim> please verify how many are subscribed? I tried to
Jim> check the subscriber list but wasn't allowed (even
Jim> after giving my password).
as you see, I did subscribe you and all these by a so-called "mass subscription" and you did get the corresponding welcome e-mail (that you had appended here).
I just tried again (needs a tiny bit longer when working from home), and it didn't work again -- when I tried to "upload a file" of new member addresses.
However when I tried (the old way of) pasting the new members e-mails in to the web-interface form -- it did work. This is clearly a bug with mailman (2.1.2) or our setup of mailman (the web server doesn't have the same files mounted, the file I used is only available on the client and the machine where mailman runs, but not on the machine where httpd runs). For this reason, I forward this answer to quite a few other people.
Anyway, the new subscription are now up. Probably you should send a new short mail mentioning that everyone can use the list archives to read your last posting and Kurt Hornik's reply to it, via the usual web interface, or very directly going to
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-qa/2003-May/thread.html
Please apologize the problem!
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <><

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 10:53, Martin Maechler wrote:
I just tested this with three names in my upload file and it worked fine for both subscribing and unsubscribing. This is with Mailman 2.1.2+ (cvs) and Python 2.2.3.
How big was the upload file? Perhaps there's some size limit on your uploads? Then again, if the subscribe page tells you they were successfully subscribed, and the logs/subscribe file shows you what you'd expect, I have no idea what could be going on. You sure you didn't click "Invite"?
-Barry

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 10:53, Martin Maechler wrote:
I just tested this with three names in my upload file and it worked fine for both subscribing and unsubscribing. This is with Mailman 2.1.2+ (cvs) and Python 2.2.3.
How big was the upload file? Perhaps there's some size limit on your uploads? Then again, if the subscribe page tells you they were successfully subscribed, and the logs/subscribe file shows you what you'd expect, I have no idea what could be going on. You sure you didn't click "Invite"?
-Barry
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