Recently I decided to post a message to flock-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org. I went to the mailing list and signed up and then sent a message. I then received a "message awaiting moderator approval" message because I was not a list member.
I made a mistake of searching google for the list and going to the wrong result: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/flock-planning
This interface allowed me to sign up for the mailing list (the old mailing list) so I thought I was subscribed. The interface I should have used, however, was this one: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/flock-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org/
So here I was in a situation where I was subscribed to a list but it was the wrong list and I kept getting "your message awaits moderator approval" messages even though I thought I was a member of the list.
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We need to 1 - point people that find the old list interface to the new one - using all CAPS might help them identify the text better
2 - Don't allow people to subscribe using the old interface any longer
Yeah, I heard from someone else bit by this the other day.
Also see https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5189
yep. I am PAINFULLY aware. :)
Will try and dig into redirects to see what we can do as soon as I can find some time to.
Would it be worth implementing some of the mentioned workarounds in case someone accidentally ends up on the wrong page in the future?
I think the biggest one would be to stop allowing people to subscribe in the old interface. This would be as easy as making the lists private, right?
Nope. we still need to make the archive links work for the old archives. ;(
I'll try and dig into this today...
Ok. I figured you could make this list subscriptions private without making the archives private. I guess that is not possible?
ok.
I think I have this all working now.
Please test any urls you might normally hit and confirm that they go to the right place now?
admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/.* -> redirect (not proxy) to lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/$1 admin.fedoraproject.org/pipermail -> redirect (not proxy) to lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/<list>/ -> lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/<list>.fedoraproject.org/ lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/somethinglikeapostorthread -> lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/somethinglikealistorthread
(ie, everything we can redirect we are, old archives threads/date/posts are just passed into mailman2 archives).
Please reopen if you still see any bad urls or redirects.
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