-----Original Message----- From: Bryan Fullerton [mailto:fehwalker@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 July 2004 20:13 To: Mailman Developers Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] interface dreams

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:59:24 +0200, Fil <fil@rezo.net> wrote:

...

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?

The Find Member function on the Membership List admin page supports regex, which is likely as fuzzy as you'll get without hacking your own stuff on. If you searched on bean, or even more precisely bean@.*rezo.net, you should get back either address.

There's also ~mailman/bin/find_members for site admins, which will do similar matches across some or all lists on a machine. Useful for dealing with users who can't read and insist on sending "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST!11!11" messages to majordomo-owner on the 1st of each month.

You mean mailman-owner I hope. I get it all the time. Fortunately we don't have big lists and our biggest list (5000+) just left. However, I suspect they'll be back when they realise that their external service is pants.

-- John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the Blind, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey@rnib.org.uk

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