Scheduled Administrative Option
When will you add a "Schedule" feature to the Tend to Pending Moderator Requests sections? Right now there are only 4 options (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard). There should be 5 (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard, Schedule). The Schedule feature would enable you to Schedule the distribution of a post for a specific date and time. This would be an enormous improvement to the list functionality. Let me know. Thanks.
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At 10:46 PM -0400 2005-07-12, LifeTrek Coaching wrote:
When will you add a "Schedule" feature to the Tend to Pending Moderator Requests sections? Right now there are only 4 options (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard). There should be 5 (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard, Schedule). The Schedule feature would enable you to Schedule the distribution of a post for a specific date and time. This would be an enormous improvement to the list functionality. Let me know. Thanks.
That sounds like a good idea. Please feel free to file a Request For Enhancement at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=350103>.
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Hi,
Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:46 PM -0400 2005-07-12, LifeTrek Coaching wrote:
When will you add a "Schedule" feature to the Tend to Pending Moderator Requests sections? Right now there are only 4 options (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard). There should be 5 (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard, Schedule). The Schedule feature would enable you to Schedule the distribution of a post for a specific date and time. This would be an enormous improvement to the list functionality. Let me know. Thanks.
That sounds like a good idea. Please feel free to file a Request For Enhancement at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=350103>.
Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary scheduling. You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so. It would be easier to use your PC (Windows or Linux) to send a message in a scheduled time. May be you can send a message with an "Approved" header and a "confirm" command with the confirmation string in the hold notice.
Cheers,
Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/
My large list (40,000 names) is announcement only and all posts are held (to prevent the possibility of a spammer hijacking the list). So the "Schedule" option is the only one that would work. Simply scheduling when I send the post would not resolve the problem.
May you be filled with goodness, peace, and joy.
Bob Tschannen-Moran, Founder & President LifeTrek Coaching International 121 Will Scarlet Lane Williamsburg, VA 23185-5043
Phone: (757) 345-3452 Fax: (772) 382-3258 Web: http://www.LifeTrekCoaching.com
-----Original Message----- From: Tokio Kikuchi [mailto:tkikuchi@is.kochi-u.ac.jp] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:13 AM To: Brad Knowles Cc: LifeTrek Coaching; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Scheduled Administrative Option
Hi,
Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:46 PM -0400 2005-07-12, LifeTrek Coaching wrote:
When will you add a "Schedule" feature to the Tend to Pending Moderator Requests sections? Right now there are only 4 options (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard). There should be 5 (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard, Schedule). The Schedule feature would enable you to Schedule the distribution of a post for a specific date and time. This would be an enormous improvement to the list functionality. Let me know. Thanks.
That sounds like a good idea. Please feel free to file a Request For Enhancement at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=350103>.
Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary scheduling. You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so. It would be easier to use your PC (Windows or Linux) to send a message in a scheduled time. May be you can send a message with an "Approved" header and a "confirm" command with the confirmation string in the hold notice.
Cheers,
Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/
LifeTrek Coaching wrote:
My large list (40,000 names) is announcement only and all posts are held (to prevent the possibility of a spammer hijacking the list). So the "Schedule" option is the only one that would work. Simply scheduling when I send the post would not resolve the problem.
You could post with an
Approved: <list_password>
header as suggested in FAQ articles 3.11 and 3.34. Then as Tokio suggests, you could schedule the sending of the post to the list on your own PC.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary scheduling. You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so.
Seems like this already exists with qrunner. [knowing nothing about the internals..] If a message is 'scehduled' toss it into a different dierctory. At the same time, drop in a small file containing the time to send (a separate file should be lower overhead to open, and should have very little data.)
Periodically check all these time-to-send files. Ought to be fairly trivial to impliment the sending portion. Don't know about the web pages, though.
z!
Carl Zwanzig said:
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary scheduling. You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so.
Seems like this already exists with qrunner. [knowing nothing about the internals..] If a message is 'scehduled' toss it into a different dierctory. At the same time, drop in a small file containing the time to send (a separate file should be lower overhead to open, and should have very little data.)
Periodically check all these time-to-send files. Ought to be fairly trivial to impliment the sending portion. Don't know about the web pages, though.
Wouldn't this be similiar in spirit to a "monthly reminder" email?
(Set per-list, like some other list management software has--so moderators can send out, automagically, list-rules, etc. Right now, mailman doesn't have that feature.)
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Carl Zwanzig wrote:
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary scheduling. You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so.
Seems like this already exists with qrunner. [knowing nothing about the internals..] If a message is 'scehduled' toss it into a different dierctory. At the same time, drop in a small file containing the time to send (a separate file should be lower overhead to open, and should have very little data.)
Periodically check all these time-to-send files. Ought to be fairly trivial to impliment the sending portion. Don't know about the web pages, though.
z!
Hi,
Then you should do it for Mr. LifeTrek Coaching. ;-) I only wanted to say that my (or developers') priority would be lowest if an RFE is submitted in SF and it might be better to seek alternative solutions.
-- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/
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