2:23 p.m.
Hi there,
the “Sign Up” thing in the menu at https://lists.gnu.tools leads
to
https://lists.gnu.tools/accounts/signup/?next=/hyperkitty/list/assembly%4...,
which returns “Page not found”.
How do people subscribe to the list (or request subscription)?
--
Ricardo
2:28 p.m.
New subject: [EXT] lists.gnu.tools -> Sign Up not working
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:23 AM Ricardo Wurmus <rekado(a)elephly.net> wrote:
Hi there,
the “Sign Up” thing in the menu at https://lists.gnu.tools leads
to
https://lists.gnu.tools/accounts/signup/?next=/hyperkitty/list/assembly%4...,
which returns “Page not found”.
How do people subscribe to the list (or request subscription)?
I tried that page and noticed it didn't work, but there's a form on
https://lists.gnu.tools/postorius/lists/assembly.lists.gnu.tools/ that
allows you to just enter your name and email address which works so I
just used that.
I've seen a few examples of people getting confused by this, so it
would be a good idea to address it.
- Dave
2:43 p.m.
Hi Ricardo,
On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 16:23 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
the “Sign Up” thing in the menu at https://lists.gnu.tools leads
to
https://lists.gnu.tools/accounts/signup/?next=/hyperkitty/list/assembly%4...,
which returns “Page not found”.
Sorry, that is my fault. The Sign Up page is used to create an (django)
"account" on the site. Which you can then connect to your email address
with which you are subscribed to a list. It was constantly abused and
caused a constant stream of "sign up" emails to random addresses.
It isn't technically necessary for subscribing, each list info page has
a subscribe form and you can subscribe by email, but it cannot easily
be configured out. I shared the following with the admin team, but
should probably have shared with this list to make people aware. Also,
if you do know mailman3 and django, then please let us know and we can
work on this together.
> Hi admin people,
>
> On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 22:22 +0000, root(a)lists.gnu.tools wrote:
> > Internal Server Error: /accounts/login/
>
> My apologies, my fault. We see a lot of "account creation" emails
> (and
> bounces) from the Django Sign Up page. I was trying to disable it.
>
> Turns out that isn't possible :{
> https://gitlab.com/mailman/django-mailman3/-/issues/23
>
> So I did the hack described in that bug report for now.
> (Which is horrible because it will be overwritten once we upgrade
> mailman3...) But for now I think it is the best short term solution.
>
> The only issue is that you then cannot unsubscribe from the website
> (because you first need to create an account for that...)
> You can still subscribe/unsubscribe by email though.
> And subscribing from the webpage also still works.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
4:51 p.m.
Hi,
On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 16:43 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 16:23 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> the “Sign Up” thing in the menu at https://lists.gnu.tools leads
> to
>
https://lists.gnu.tools/accounts/signup/?next=/hyperkitty/list/assembly%4...,
> which returns “Page not found”.
Sorry, that is my fault. The Sign Up page is used to create an (django)
"account" on the site. Which you can then connect to your email address
with which you are subscribed to a list. It was constantly abused and
caused a constant stream of "sign up" emails to random addresses.
And again apologies, someone contacted me directly about it too and I
now understand why disabling that Sign Up page was a mistake. If you
are looking at the archives it looks like the only way to subscribe and
on the contribute page we point to the archive, not the list info page
(where there is a very clear subscription form). So I have pushed this:
commit e4d4d906b9c7454afcd1a70987429547c2eaf04f
Author: Mark Wielaard <mark(a)klomp.org>
Date: Fri Apr 16 18:46:48 2021 +0200
contribute.md: Change subscribe link from hyperkitty to postorius
diff --git a/contribute.md b/contribute.md
index 92821f7..dc8d7f7 100644
--- a/contribute.md
+++ b/contribute.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ the Assembly are as follows:
Endorsement allows us to make sure we’re all on the same page,
following the same goals and sharing the same values.
2. Subscribe to [the Assembly mailing
- list](https://lists.gnu.tools/hyperkitty/list/assembly@lists.gnu.tools/)
+ list](https://lists.gnu.tools/postorius/lists/assembly.lists.gnu.tools/)
and check out the [code of conduct](/en/documents/code-of-conduct)
that applies.
3. Introduce yourself on the list and propose changes adding you to
I'll look this weekend into re-enabling the Sign Up page. Hopefully in a way that
spammers cannot abuse so easily. This is indeed confusing and makes it too hard for people
to subscribe to the list.
Apologies,
Mark
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