Re: Mailing list question

On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:49 pm, Mikey Cooper wrote:

> As far as whatever is instructing you guys to try and "set nomail" and
> causing all this frustration, it is flat-out wrong. I just resubscribed
> to the mailing list and nowhere in any of our emails does it mention a
> "set nomail" option so it looks like we're not the ones telling you
> this. If someone else (gmane.org?) is offering this information
> specifically in regards to abisource.com's mailing lists, they have
> incorrect information posted and should be notified that it's wrong. If
> it's just general information not specific to our lists, it most likely
> is only intended for listserv or mailman managed lists, not Majordomo
> lists.

Aha. I see now that it's a Gmane problem. It sends the following message to
any unsubscribed user attempting to post to this group:

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You have sent a message to be posted on the
gmane.editors.abiword.user newsgroup.

This is a non-public mailing list, which means that you have to
subscribe to the list to post to it. If you're already subscribed to
the list, Gmane can forward this message to the list if you respond to
this message. If not, you should sign up to the mailing list first,
and then respond to this message, or just forget about it.

Many mailing lists have an option to subscribe to a list, but then put
it in 'nomail' mode, which means that you won't receive any mail from
the list.

The mailing list software used for the list in question is mailman.

First subscribe to the mailing list. The subscription address is
abiword-user-request@abisource.com. Then send a message to
abiword-user-request@abisource.com with the text

  set nomail on YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE

or (depending on the version of Mailman)

  set authenticate YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE
  set delivery off

in the body of the message.

You have to respond within one week.

-- 
Your friendly autoauthorizer at Gmane.org
http://gmane.org/ 
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