[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Deleting two old mailing lists on nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

[The official contact is address@hidden

I removed both mailing lists.

'password' is for the list member password. List admins are not
treated as members, which explains what you experienced.

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:32:25PM +0200, Laurent Jacques wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm sorry to ask you that question but I have a strange problem with the 
> mailing list server of Savannah, namely lists.nongnu.org
> 
> Three years ago I wanted to host an ancient php project on savannah named 
> bbclone. This registering had created two mailing lists:
>  address@hidden
>  address@hidden
> with my address as the owner of these ones. After some days, I remove this 
> project from savannah by sending a mail to Loic Dachary. 
> 
> Three months ago, a spam has hit one of these lists (i.e. 
> address@hidden) and now, every day, I catch two mails complaining 
> that I have to remove this unsolicited spam coming from a user which is of 
> course not registered for these ML.
> 
> Problem is that I cannot connect on the refered admin page
>  http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/admindb/bbclone-devel
> since I forgot my three year old password. 
> 
> However, when I try to automatically remind my password by sending the 
> correct 
> command ("password") to address@hidden, mailman returns me 
> the answer: "You are not a member of the Bbclone-devel mailing list".
> 
> This is the same message for the page 
>  http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bbclone-devel
> using the "Unsubscribe or edit option" with my email address.
> 
> That's really strange since I'm receiving the error message of the two MLs as 
> I was the bbclone-devel owner !!?
> 
> So what can I do ? The simplest thing for me is to remove these two unsesed 
> MLs from lists.nongnu.org. 
> 
> So, Please, can you kindly do that or send this mail to the correct person in 
> Savannah ? 
> 
> Many thanks in advance,