I've been running various automotive related mailing lists, web pages, FTP sites and such for over twenty years. It is a labor of love, not a means of making money, so tending to outstanding requests is not top priority. But I've had a nasty cold the last few days, and have spent some time working on Team.Net since I can't do much else besides sit at the computer, sniffle and cough.
With 60 or so lists and 12,000+ subscribers around the globe it is easy to get behind. I've seen 10,000 or more held messages at times. Today, though:
autox /local/mailman/teamnet/data 131 :: ls held* ls: No match.
This could be the first time in many years I have *no* outstanding requests to deal with. Sweet.
mjb.
Mark> With 60 or so lists and 12,000+ subscribers around the
Mark> globe it is easy to get behind. I've seen 10,000 or more
Mark> held messages at times. Today, though:
Mark>
Mark> autox /local/mailman/teamnet/data 131 :: ls held*
Mark> ls: No match.Mark,
That's a pleasant sight, I agree. (I'm a former member of both the triumphs and british-car lists, though not for several years. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into maintaining team.net.)
I help manage the python.org mailing lists. In fact, I came across your mail while doing a bit of backend triage this evening.
To help with the process, a couple years ago I wrote a script to help me quickly process held messages:
http://www.smontanaro.net/python/mmfold.pyI invoke it from a shell function which executes it once for each list I admin or moderate:
mmcheck ()
{
for url in
http://mail.python.org/mailman/admindb/pydotorg-checkins?admpw=XXXXXX
http://mail.python.org/mailman/admindb/python-bugs-list?admpw=XXXXXX
http://mail.python.org/mailman/admindb/python-list?admpw=XXXXXX
...
do
mmfold $url;
done
}then just step through the pages it generates. Information for each held message is displayed in a single line and the default action is to discard, which I find is the most useful action.
Maybe it will help to keep your held message lists down under 1,000.
Cheers,
-- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
Mark> With 60 or so lists and 12,000+ subscribers around the
Mark> globe it is easy to get behind. I've seen 10,000 or more
Mark> held messages at times. Today, though:
Mark>
Mark> autox /local/mailman/teamnet/data 131 :: ls held*
Mark> ls: No match.Mark,
That's a pleasant sight, I agree. (I'm a former member of both the triumphs and british-car lists, though not for several years. I appreciate all the time and effort you put into maintaining team.net.)
I help manage the python.org mailing lists. In fact, I came across your mail while doing a bit of backend triage this evening.
To help with the process, a couple years ago I wrote a script to help me quickly process held messages:
http://www.smontanaro.net/python/mmfold.pyI invoke it from a shell function which executes it once for each list I admin or moderate:
mmcheck ()
{
for url in
http://mail.python.org/mailman/admindb/pydotorg-checkins?admpw=XXXXXX
http://mail.python.org/mailman/admindb/python-bugs-list?admpw=XXXXXX
http://mail.python.org/mailman/admindb/python-list?admpw=XXXXXX
...
do
mmfold $url;
done
}then just step through the pages it generates. Information for each held message is displayed in a single line and the default action is to discard, which I find is the most useful action.
Maybe it will help to keep your held message lists down under 1,000.
Cheers,
-- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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