[Mailman-Users] Commands via email is (still) a good idea...

[Frederick Noronha]

i Ed, I agree with most of your views.

(i) Like you, I'm shifting over from Majordomo. While I find Mailman great
(and affordable, important for us in a Third World country like India), I
wish I could manage more tasks via email. With bandwidth being costly and
slow here, one has to wait maybe upto a day or two to visit the web from a
fast cybercafe to carry out some admin tasks.

(ii) You raised an important point: maybe Mailman would be more useful if it
had a "block all attachments" option. This would avoid virus... we still
have Windows-based readers on our lists ;-)

(iii) Some other features that would mail Mailman great (a) option for
listmembers to share files, have online voice chats and share a group
calendar -- like yahoogroups.com (b) easy shiftover from one server to
another, when required (c) a good book that explains Mailman... maybe an
independent author could be tempted into doing this.

Where I disagree is with your slight impatience. C'mon guys, this is
volunteer work. I'm grateful for what I've already got... (though fishing
for more!). FN

PS: Is there a listing somewhere of lists that run on Mailman?
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---------------Ed Howard commented earlier:-----------------------

I sent the following to mailman-users at python.org but nobody commented   :-)

I am new to Mailman, which I like on the whole, having used Majordomo, and 
have been reading this mailing list (as a digest), which is really useful 
(but see 3) thank you.

1. I would like e-mail commands to do my admindb approvals. Is there any 
way? (not the user requests, I know about that).

2. In a moderated list posting, how can I tell if the messages (perhaps 
with an attachment or embedded content) is virus free? The only way I can 
think of is to have each message sent to my address for checking when it 
arrives at the mailing list server, which does not check for viruses.

3. Our private list members are people we know and converting from 
Majordomo to Mailman 2.0.8 I have to keep a separate record of the name and 
e-mail. Any workarounds to capture this info?

I am told version 2.1 is addressing this but I wonder how long will I have 
to wait for that?

Edward Howard