[Mailman-Users] Deleting a list

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Wed Nov 24 00:14:23 CET 2004


Bryan Fullerton wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:16:05 +1100, Terry Allen <hmag at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>         Is it possible to delete a list using the HTML pages in
>> Mailman? If not, am I correct in that deleting a list requires
>> running the rmlist command from the command line like this:
>
>Good question. I see there's a rmlist wrapper in the cgi-bin
>directory, so theoretically you should be able to use the URL
>/mailman/rmlist/listname, but when I tried with one of my lists I get
>simply this back:
>
>You're being a sneaky list owner!
>
>So either there are more arguments needed, or perhaps someone was just
>having a private laugh when that command was added to the web
>interface...

Actually, neither (unless you want to consider a mm_cfg parameter an
argument). If OWNERS_CAN_DELETE_THEIR_OWN_LISTS = Yes as I indicated
in my previous post, what you tried will work.
 
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