[Mailman-Users] Mailing list with no archive

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Wed Jun 4 04:32:51 CEST 2008


In a message of Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:38:36 PDT, Mark Sapiro writes:
>Laura Creighton wrote:
>> 
>> A mailing list that I am subscribed to, for reasons of privacy, has dec
>ided
>> to not archive its messages.  I think this is an extremely silly idea, 
>but
>> right now out of my control.  My problem is that periodically I think I
>> remember something useful having been posted there, and want to search 
>the
>> non-existant archives -- because I forget they do not exist.
>> 
>> The first erroneous piece of information I get is 'this archive is only
>> searchable by list members'.  So I try to log in to read the list, and
>> despite typing my correct password, things fail with 'Authorization
>> Failed' rather than letting me discover that there were no archives to
>> be found.  So you assume you haven't reset your password for this maili
>ng
>> list to one of the several you are in the habit of using, and ask for
>> a password reminder -- to find out that all of this has been a complete
>> waste of time because your problem is that there is no archive, not
>> that you mistyped your password.
>> 
>> So -- is this just a bug -- should I report it -- or is this list
>> misconfigured?  I can ask the list maintainer to change things if there
>> is a way we can avoid this.
>
>
>I can't duplicate this problem. What Mailman version hosts this list? 
>Are you sure you are logging in with the exact email address that is 
>subscribed to the list?

Mailman version 2.1.9, and yes the email address is the same.

Laura
>
>-- 
>Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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