All GNHLUG mailing lists are currently hosted on the server rogue at Codemeta (thanks, Bruce!), and run via Mailman. As of this writing, all the lists are open to self-subscription, and most allow any subscriber to post.

Admin work is generally done via the web-based admin interface for each list. See the list of list admin pages. A link to each list's admin page is also present at the bottom of each list's listinfo page. The admin passwords are not documented on this public website. If you need access, contact one of the existing list admins; if they trust you, they will presumably give you the password. You can find out the current list admins for a given list on the listinfo page for said list.

Announce List

Posts to gnhlug-announce are restricted. This is done mainly to keep mis-directed messages from annoying people who just want announcements. Posts can be manually approved by a list admin (see Queue Management on this page). There is also a short list of addresses whose posts are not held for approval. The exact critera for inclusion on said list are not formally defined. Generally speaking, this is the various chapter coordinators.

Queue Management

Messages from non-subscribers are held for manual disposition. Since the list posting addresses are in circulation on the Internet, they get spam. The queue of held messages thus quickly accumulate spam. They need to be cleaned on a regular basis -- at least weekly, sometimes daily. Failure to do so results in the queue growing to unworkable proportions depressingly quickly.

To clear the queue: Log in to the admin interface, click "Tend to pending administrative requests", and deal with the resulting pile of crap^W^W^W list of messages. Most messages will be spam. So you generally go along, set each message to "Discard", and then click "Submit".

Quick Links

For convenience, the following links to the various queues may be useful.

• http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/admindb/gnhlug-discuss
• http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/admindb/gnhlug-jobs
• http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/admindb/gnhlug-announce
• http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/admindb/gnhlug-org

Tip: Put the above links in a bookmark folder in Firefox, and use the "Open in tabs" option that appears at the bottom of the resulting bookmark menu.

Discard-All Bookmarklet

Most messages end up being discarded. One quickly wishes "Discard" were the default, rather then "Defer". The following bookmarklet will accomplish that; it sets all the checkboxes to "Discard". Of course, you still have to weed through all the spam and set any non-spam to "Approve". A little caution is in order; it is easy to accidentally discard a useful post this way.

Discard All

The above bookmarklet is a kludge; it may break if the Mailman config or version changes, or on browsers other then Firefox 1.5, or if the wind blows.

More automation

Jeff Kinz is/was running some kind of script which would automatically handle some of this. See thread starting here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org/msg01363.html