Let me look into it when I get home tonight …
On 2013-05-16, at 11:28 , Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>>
>> from what I can tell, and I am by no means a mailman expert, there is no way
>> of disabling a list without totally removing it … the closest you can get is
>> to login as the list admin (in this case, its listed as being Magnus), and
>> do:
>>
>> Privacy Options
>>
>> Advertised -> No
>> Subscribe Policy -> Confirm and approve
>> Private Roster -> List admin only
>> Sender Filters
>>
>> Default Member Moderation -> Yes
>> Member Moderation Action -> Discard
>> Generic Nonmember Action -> Discard
>>
>>
>> From what I'm able to determine, this will close down the list so that
>> nobody can subscribe, or post, to it, but leave the archives available …
>
> I haven't been able to log in to that list for years, and repeated
> requests to recover the password was ignored years ago. I have no
> interest in trying to work around that again now, but if somebody else
> wants to take over adminship and change those things, be my guest.
>
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