[Mailman-Users] changing subscriber options

[Ron Brogden]

On May 30, 2002 12:04 am, you wrote:
> You really need to take a look at Mailman's web UI. It does this and what
> you asked for in your previous message.

That is simply not true for my problem with changing user settings.  It may 
be true for the admin password now that I think of it since I can hopefully 
use the site password to log into the list and change it there (as long as 
this remembers scope properly and doesn't change "my" password instead of the 
lists).  I do not think that this was covered in the manual however.  

As to my other question though. . .  

Mailman's web interface lets you make changes to users onesies twosies via 
one huge form with individual check boxes for every user (yuck).  This means 
that for a list with more than a handful of subscribers you are doing one 
hell of a lot of clicking and submitting.  In my case I am looking after the 
listbox itself and it is simply not reasonable to expect that I should have 
to click 1000+ checkboxes, another 34 clicks to go through each page, etc. 
times the number of lists on the box just to perform basic administration.  
Like I said, I do not want to get carpel tunnel syndrome just  from 
performing standard mass administration duties in Mailman.  

I *know* pretty much for a fact that there should be a way to achieve this 
via "withlist" but as I am not sure what the specific properties are that 
need to be changed or how to reference their methods, I am asking for help 
here.

So again, if anyone can suggest how to *from the command line* adjust list 
members options (so that it can be scripted), I would definitely appreciate 
it.

Cheers,

Ron

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