Unfortunately, the admin for this particular list was pretty upset and in a hurry so as a quick fix I extracted the membership listing (list_members) and rebuilt the list.

Thanks for the information. I will keep it on file in case this issue reoccurs on another list.

Ruben

-----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:27 AM To: Franco, Ruben; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Membership Management Error

Franco, Ruben wrote:

We are having a problem with one of our lists. When trying to access the "Membership Manangement" section, one gets the following error:

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 198, in main show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 498, in show_results form.AddItem(membership_options(mlist, subcat, cgidata, doc, form)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 870, in membership_options all = [_m.encode() for _m in mlist.getMembers()] UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

It looks like you have a subscriber address with a non-ascii character.

See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.013.htp

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