Thread: Mail list / web issues
A couple of issues. I went to unsubscribe from one of the many PG lists to which I'm subscribed so I went to my original confirmation message and followed the directions. After a couple hours I got a response that the password I used was not valid (I cut an pasted from the confirmation message dated 2002-01-10 so it wasn't a typo). So I went to the web site listed in the confirmation email: http://webmail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org but that just gave me a 404 error. So I checked the message source on a recent message for informative headers such as "List-Help:" and "List-Unsubscribe" like are in messages on some other lists I read. No joy. So I went to www.postgresql.org and followed the links to: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe Unfortunately the available lists drop-down is missing some entries (hackers, for example) and there is no option to display all lists to which I've subscribed. The following would improve the list management usability: Put something informative at http://webmail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org with advice on how to manage subscriptions that have been transferred to the new setup along with appropriate links to the new subscription pages. Allow someone to enter their email address on the web and see/change all their list subscriptions on one page. Add "List-*" headers to the messages. Cheers, Steve P.S. Just how do I unsubscribe from a list on the new system? -Steve
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Steve Crawford wrote: > A couple of issues. I went to unsubscribe from one of the many PG > lists to which I'm subscribed so I went to my original confirmation > message and followed the directions. After a couple hours I got a > response that the password I used was not valid (I cut an pasted from > the confirmation message dated 2002-01-10 so it wasn't a typo). > > So I went to the web site listed in the confirmation email: > http://webmail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org > but that just gave me a 404 error. > > So I checked the message source on a recent message for informative > headers such as "List-Help:" and "List-Unsubscribe" like are in > messages on some other lists I read. No joy. > > So I went to www.postgresql.org and followed the links to: > http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe > > Unfortunately the available lists drop-down is missing some entries > (hackers, for example) and there is no option to display all lists to > which I've subscribed. > > The following would improve the list management usability: > > Put something informative at > http://webmail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org change the webmail to be just mail, and everything should work as expected ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
On Friday 28 January 2005 5:05 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: ... > > Put something informative at > > http://webmail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql > >.org > > change the webmail to be just mail, and everything should work as > expected ... Like http://mail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org ? Response: The requested URL /cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org was not found on this server. Cheers, Steve
k, where are you seeing the cgi-bin link referenced? it hasn't been there for *ages* ... should just be: http://mail.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org Just tested from here to make sure ... On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Steve Crawford wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2005 5:05 pm, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > ... >>> Put something informative at >>> http://webmail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql >>> .org >> >> change the webmail to be just mail, and everything should work as >> expected ... > > Like > http://mail.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org ? > > Response: > The requested URL /cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr/domain=postgresql.org was not > found on this server. > > Cheers, > Steve > > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664