Talk:Mailing lists

Mailing list directory

I have created this as a way to organize all the mailing lists, the talk page of that shows mailing lists that still need to be added to the main page. Lcarsdata 18:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Requesting new mailing lists

What about requesting a mailing list for another Wikipedia language? Where could we do that? Thanks! TXiKi 16:05, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ Cbrown1023 talk 19:50, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Another try

I have requested twice for a list to be formed at "Bugzilla" with no response. This is another request for the same. Could some one at least respond acknowledging that I have made a request? Be well, Greg Bard 22:34, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

What was/were the bug number(s)? Cbrown1023 talk 00:43, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

E-mail deliver confirmation

Currently I not subscribed to the translators-l. I sent an e-mail to translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org. Is there is a way to check if it was recevied by the members? Teyandee 12:39, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

From its info page there are no much information about posting without being subscribed. But in the first section there a link to its archives, which is public, so you can check by yourself.--SignorX 18:06, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

You may browse the archives and see if the message is there. If it is the message has arrived correctly to the mailing list. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 23:32, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

email address visibility

I've subscribed some mailing lists, and I have set the option Conceal yourself from subscriber list so that my mail address is not shown in subscriber list ?

But: If I will post some messages, my email address will be visible in the email to other subscribers? And if someone else (not subscriber, and may be even search engines' crawlers) look at the archives (public accessible by web pages), can he/she see my email address? --SignorX 18:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

The "conceal yourself..." option is useful when the subscriber list is accessible to the mailing list subscribers. If the option is enabled your email address will not appear on the subscribers list. Mailing list administrators can still see your email address through the administrator interface, though.

Regarding your second and third question: Yes. Once you post a message on the list other members will be able to see your email address and if the mailing list archives are publicy viewable your email will be visible to everyone reading those archives of course. If I remember correctly there's a configuration option in the list (that has to be set by administrators and for all the list) that will remove your email address from postings so nobody in the list can see your email. However I don't know if that has any effect on the archives. Hope this answers your questions. Thanks. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 23:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Ok, thank you very much. So I think I will use a "secondary" email address, if I will get much spam (the address being visible), I will simply discard that address and change to another ;-) --SignorX 20:55, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Experience shows that you don't get any spam from being in those pages. Nemo 07:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Get password reminder email

I've subscribed some mailing lists, and I have set the option Get password reminder email for this list? ("Once a month, you will get an email containing a password reminder for every list at this host to which you are subscribed. ...") to yes in each of them.

But I get those reminder email only by one of them (WikiIT-l), and nothing by the others (for example: announce-l and by Wikitech-l). --SignorX 18:22, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Even if you set this option on, the list administrators have to enable the feature internaly for that option to work. It's just a checkbox, though. It's set to 'false' by default. Thanks. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 23:24, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. (By the way, I think that user option page should point out if that feature is disabled :-( ) --SignorX 20:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

You can try to file a bug against mailman if it's not already fixed in version 3 betas. Nemo 07:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC)