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+               <title>listadmin, the quick way to moderate mailman lists - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;If you ever had to moderate a mailman list, like the ones on
+alioth.debian.org, you know the web interface is fairly slow to
+operate.  First you visit one web page, enter the moderation password
+and get a new page shown with a list of all the messages to moderate
+and various options for each email address.  This take a while for
+every list you moderate, and you need to do it regularly to do a good
+job as a list moderator.  But there is a quick alternative,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://heim.ifi.uio.no/kjetilho/hacks/#listadmin&quot;&gt;the
+listadmin program&lt;/a&gt;.  It allow you to check lists for new messages
+to moderate in a fraction of a second.  Here is a test run on two
+lists I recently took over:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% time listadmin xiph
+fetching data for pkg-xiph-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue
+fetching data for pkg-xiph-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue
+
+real    0m1.709s
+user    0m0.232s
+sys     0m0.012s
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In 1.7 seconds I had checked two mailing lists and confirmed that
+there are no message in the moderation queue.  Every morning I
+currently moderate 68 mailman lists, and it normally take around two
+minutes.  When I took over the two pkg-xiph lists above a few days
+ago, there were 400 emails waiting in the moderator queue.  It took me
+less than 15 minutes to process them all using the listadmin
+program.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you install
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/listadmin&quot;&gt;the listadmin
+package&lt;/a&gt; from Debian and create a file &lt;tt&gt;~/.listadmin.ini&lt;/tt&gt;
+with content like this, the moderation task is a breeze:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+username@example.org
+spamlevel 23
+default discard
+discard_if_reason &quot;Posting restricted to members only. Remove us from your mail list.&quot;
+
+password secret
+adminurl https://{domain}/mailman/admindb/{list}
+mailman-list@lists.example.com
+
+password hidden
+other-list@otherserver.example.org
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There are other options to set as well.  Check the manual page to
+learn the details.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you are forced to moderate lists on a mailman installation where
+the SSL certificate is self signed or not properly signed by a
+generally accepted signing authority, you can set a environment
+variable when calling listadmin to disable SSL verification:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 listadmin
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to moderate a subset of the lists you take care of, you
+can provide an argument to the listadmin script like I do in the
+initial screen dump (the xiph argument).  Using an argument, only
+lists matching the argument string will be processed.  This make it
+quick to accept messages if you notice the moderation request in your
+email.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Without the listadmin program, I would never be the moderator of 68
+mailing lists, as I simply do not have time to spend on that if the
+process was any slower. The listadmin program have saved me hours of
+time I could spend elsewhere over the years.  It truly is nice free
+software.&lt;/p&gt;
+
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+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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+</description>
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                <title>Debian Jessie, PXE and automatic firmware installation</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html</link>