I noticed that most of the answers in the Mailman FAQ wizard [1] assume that you have site admin access. Many of us are only list managers. Solutions to problems that work for site admins may not work for list managers.
Is there a preferred way to modify the FAQ Wizard for answers to list manager questions? Specifically for list managers without site admin access.
[1] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
-- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/
Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Alternatively, I could set up a separate FAQ Wizard for (less technical) list manager questions at listowner.org ... would this be desirable?
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and Steering Committee member Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://norbert.ch List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com
"MN" == Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
MN> I noticed that most of the answers in the Mailman FAQ wizard
MN> [1] assume that you have site admin access. Many of us are
MN> only list managers. Solutions to problems that work for site
MN> admins may not work for list managers.The section on "List Administrators" is definitely intended to address questions or problems for those who administer lists without shell access. The fact that so many issues do require shell access is, IMO, due to a deficiency in Mailman, something I hope that MM2.1 will go a long way towards improving.
MN> Is there a preferred way to modify the FAQ Wizard for answers
MN> to list manager questions? Specifically for list managers
MN> without site admin access.
MN> [1] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.pyAlso note that the FAQ wizard is specifically intended to be community supported. It is maintained through an honor system, and the password is "Mailman". Feel free to make updates!
-Barry
"JN" == Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de> writes:
>> Also note that the FAQ wizard is specifically intended to be
>> community supported. It is maintained through an honor system,
>> and the password is "Mailman". Feel free to make updates!
JN> i sent a faq suggestion about another topic to mailman-cabal a
JN> week ago, but did not hear anything yet. should i go ahead and
JN> add it myself ?I just scanned my email backlog and read your entry. It looks fine to me, so go for it!
Thanks, -Barry
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 21:14, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
Barry, Thank you for the information. I added a new FAQ [1] specific to List Managers.
OT: Will Mailman 2.1 recognize the (?!...) Python negative lookahead assertion in "Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp."?
[1] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.010.htp
-- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/
"MN" == Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
MN> OT: Will Mailman 2.1 recognize the (?!...) Python negative
MN> lookahead assertion in "Hold posts with header value matching
MN> a specified regexp."?It will recognize any regexp supported by the version of Python you're running Mailman on <2.2.1 wink>.
-Barry
Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Alternatively, I could set up a separate FAQ Wizard for (less technical) list manager questions at listowner.org ... would this be desirable?
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and Steering Committee member Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://norbert.ch List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com
"MN" == Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
MN> I noticed that most of the answers in the Mailman FAQ wizard
MN> [1] assume that you have site admin access. Many of us are
MN> only list managers. Solutions to problems that work for site
MN> admins may not work for list managers.The section on "List Administrators" is definitely intended to address questions or problems for those who administer lists without shell access. The fact that so many issues do require shell access is, IMO, due to a deficiency in Mailman, something I hope that MM2.1 will go a long way towards improving.
MN> Is there a preferred way to modify the FAQ Wizard for answers
MN> to list manager questions? Specifically for list managers
MN> without site admin access.
MN> [1] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.pyAlso note that the FAQ wizard is specifically intended to be community supported. It is maintained through an honor system, and the password is "Mailman". Feel free to make updates!
-Barry
"JN" == Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de> writes:
>> Also note that the FAQ wizard is specifically intended to be
>> community supported. It is maintained through an honor system,
>> and the password is "Mailman". Feel free to make updates!
JN> i sent a faq suggestion about another topic to mailman-cabal a
JN> week ago, but did not hear anything yet. should i go ahead and
JN> add it myself ?I just scanned my email backlog and read your entry. It looks fine to me, so go for it!
Thanks, -Barry
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 21:14, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
Barry, Thank you for the information. I added a new FAQ [1] specific to List Managers.
OT: Will Mailman 2.1 recognize the (?!...) Python negative lookahead assertion in "Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp."?
[1] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.010.htp
-- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/
"MN" == Mike Noyes <mhnoyes@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
MN> OT: Will Mailman 2.1 recognize the (?!...) Python negative
MN> lookahead assertion in "Hold posts with header value matching
MN> a specified regexp."?It will recognize any regexp supported by the version of Python you're running Mailman on <2.2.1 wink>.
-Barry
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