[Mailman-Users] Help a newbie out! How to list users of a specific list

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:03 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On 12/19/07, Lev Lafayette wrote:
> 
> >  You know... I've been thinking that this would be a really handy on the
> >  web admin interface as well as the command line.
> 
> On the web interface, the closest we get is the "Membership 
> Management" section.  If you have more users on the list than a 
> certain built-in site-wide default, then this will be broken down by 
> the first letter of their e-mail address.

*nods* Which requires a "screen scrape" to get a copy of membership of
the mailing list in text form.

> 
> >  (Apologies if it does already exist as an option I simply haven't
> >  noticed it)
> 
> For lists with hundreds of thousands of subscribers (and yes, there 
> are some Mailman lists that large), putting all this on a single web 
> page wouldn't be very feasible.  For smaller lists, I can see the 
> value.
> 

Yahoo groups for example has this feature for moderators
(members-download). It would be especially handy for mailman managers
who don't have access to the command line (for example, due to
restrictions on their hosting service)

> If you check the Mailman RFE (Request for Feature Enhancement) page 
> at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=350103>, I 
> imagine that you should see a request from someone else for precisely 
> this option.

Thanks for that.

All the best,


Lev