Sorry everyone. We had more spam problems on the WLUG Mailing List last night, and in the process of trying to remove that user I accidentally removed everyone. I partly blame the poor Admin user interface of Postorius--it has a "Unsubscribe All" button at the top of the Member list even if that list has been filtered and says "List Members (1)" due to the filter. So it is easy to misinterpret "All" as being just the Members that are currently listed due to the filter. I went through a backup of the member list I have from 2018, edited the list based on all the subscription/remove requests since then, and resubscribed everyone who hadn't removed themselves since. I could have missed some email addresses, so I apologize if you have been accidentally resubscribed when you shouldn't have been--feel free to email me directly and I'll fix that. I could have also missed some new subscriptions, so if you know someone who should be subscribed but complains that they are no longer receiving posts, please let them know to resubscribe. I'm not sure if each user's subscription options have been retained, so if you had set no email delivery or digest mode for example, you may have to reconfigure that. Finally, I have configured the mailing list to require moderator approval for new membership requests and posts from all existing members until I know that the member isn't a spammer. Over the next few days I'll be going through the member list and unsetting moderation on "known good" members.
Not a fun job, Chuck. Sorry it happened. Bob On 8/19/2020 8:51 AM, Chuck Anderson via WLUG wrote:
Sorry everyone. We had more spam problems on the WLUG Mailing List last night, and in the process of trying to remove that user I accidentally removed everyone. I partly blame the poor Admin user <clip>
This is a test. Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Sorry everyone.
Thank you for your work.
We had more spam problems on the WLUG Mailing List last night, and in the process of trying to remove that user I accidentally removed everyone. I partly blame the poor Admin user interface of Postorius--it has a "Unsubscribe All" button at the top of the Member list even if that list has been filtered and says "List Members (1)" due to the filter. So it is easy to misinterpret "All" as being just the Members that are currently listed due to the filter.
Indeed. Why is there such a button at all?
I went through a backup of the member list I have from 2018,
But somebody needs to backup more often. -- Keith
Thanks Chuck! Eric
On Aug 19, 2020, at 7:57 PM, Michael Voorhis via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I didn't receive this; test failed. ;)
On 8/19/20 5:06 PM, Keith Wright via WLUG wrote: This is a test.
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 05:06:12PM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
Chuck Anderson via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
I went through a backup of the member list I have from 2018,
But somebody needs to backup more often.
It is a manual process to download the CSV member list and I don't have CLI or direct database access. I'll try to do that more often, but that still won't have the member delivery preferences, etc. However, our Mailman 3 host provided a Postgres backup from Tuesday which I was able to restore from. I went through and removed, added, and set the delivery preferences for 25 or so email addresses. Thanks to mailman3.com for saving the day!
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