[realprogrammers hosting] Mailman fixes

[Paul Makepeace]

[Another in the extremely occasional series of hosting announcements.]

NEWS

  Jan 22 2004 passed without incident, which is good. Mythix, the main
  server, 'celebrated' a year of uninterrupted uptime. Machine status as
  ever at http://paulm.com/hosting/status/

If you don't host a mailing list at paulm.com you can ignore the rest of
this message!

MAILMAN - MAILING LIST SOFTWARE FIXES

  With the help of diligent detective Michela and several hours of
  slamming my head between two otherwise perfectly good bricks a number
  of little annoyances with the mailing list software mailman
  (http://www.list.org/) I believe are all now fixed. In particular the
  archive, confirmation, public/private links now work reliably and
  point to people's actual domain rather than, typically,
  realprogrammers.com

MAILMAN OPTIONS EXPLAINED

  Some of the privacy & archival options on your admin pages might not
  be obvious (i.e. they weren't to me :-). Here are some pointers:

Archiving Options

  Archive messages?
    This controls whether your mailing list is archived to the Web.

  Is archive file source for public or private archival?
    If set to private members will need to log in to see the
    archives. Otherwise it'll be online and accessible including to
    search engines.

Privacy Options

  Advertise this list?
    If you want the list to be 'hidden' set this option to 'no'. Then it
    won't appear on http://[ your domain ]/mm/listinfo It is still
    accessible if someone types or guesses the URL. At that point
    further access is controlled by the public or private setting above.

A handy guide aimed at List Administrators can be found at,
http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html

Cheers, Paul

-- 
Paul Makepeace ................................  http://paulm.com/ecademy

"What is truth? Questions, questions."
   -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/