On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Arun Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
Also it does not prevent new members who sign up after "the cleanup" to perpetrate the problem below.
True, but refreshing subscriptions is not a solution for that anyways. Those who sign up fresh are generally interested enough to at least apologize if someone protests. This is just a way to see how many of those signed up are actually interested and care enough to stay on. IMO it doesn't take much as a member to simply click on a confirmation link.
The real effort, as Praveen mentioned, is for the admins. If there is a "membership re-confirmation" feature in mailman then well and good, but otherwise it's going to either need a patch or for the admins to sweat it out. Could it be possible to:
1) Resend confirmation emails 2) List responding email IDs with the help of a script and get a list which has not responded and call it script_foo 3) Unsubscribe all in script_foo and send an unsubscribed mail
Is this scriptable? I have no idea how mailman works so just speculating. And are the admins willing for it in the first place? If they're no then this is a wasted discussion anyways.