Hi all,
As Ely wrote before, the list is now running on Mailman. Everyone's
profiles should have been moved. Most of the following are relevant for
any Mailman managed list, but I know things have been heated about these
subjects here in the past, so I'll repeat some of them.
First, as you can see, the [Linux-il] subject has been removed. Ely and
me agreed that keeping the status quo is the best course of action at
this point in time. Unfortunately, Mailman does not allow this to be set
per-recipient (and even if it did, things would still overflow when you
reply, so this is probably WHY mailman does not allow it per-recipient).
After proper discussion, if a consensus arises to bring it back, we will
bring it back.
Linux-IL is a list with no added "reply-to list" header. You are kindly
requested to hit "reply to all" when replying to postings arriving from
the list. Don't worry about people getting two copies. When mailman
notices that your email is in the "To" or "CC" list, it will refrain
from sending you the mailing list's copy of the email (it will assume
that you already received a copy), which means that you will NOT receive
two copies of emails that belong to discussions you participate in.
Some people (myself included) like to receive two copies. This Mailman
behavior is configurable on a per-user basis. Just log on to the user
administration interface (link at the bottom of this email, as well as
any email received from the list), and uncheck the "nodupes" option. At
the moment, all users subscribing to the list, as well as all users
already subscribed who did not perform this setting, have nodupes
activated (i.e. - will not receive two copies when others hit "reply to
all"). Hopefully, this will set the old "reply-to" argument to its final
rest.
At the moment, the list is configured to send a password reminder once a
month. Again, this can be switched off on a per-user basis from the same
place.
I tried to cause mailman to send the headers that listserv used to send,
to no avail. I'm afraid that anyone that relied on the list headers in
order to filter the mail will have to update their filters. The Mailman
headers are better in almost every respect, so this is more of a
migration issue than anything else.
Also, Mailman keeps its own archives around. You can get them at
http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/. They, obviously, start
from the moment of the switch. All of the usual archives should continue
to work as before.
That's about it. Enjoy the new system.
Shachar
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