[BioC] mailman bugs

[Gordon Smyth]

Dear Vincent,

Thank you for your reply.

I have attempted to use the mailman www interface under three systems: 
IE5.50 under Windows 2000, Netscape under linux and Netscape 4.7 under 
MacOS 9. All three systems complain that the security certificate is not 
trusted. Using Netscape under MacOS or Linux, I am able to work through a 
wizard to explicitly accept the certificate as trusted, after which the 
mailman site works correctly. Using IE under Windows 2000, I have not be 
able to successfully register the stat.math.ethz.ch site as a trusted site 
either using the wizard or manually. I have tried a number of different 
site combinations when attempting manual registration.

It is possible that this is "a Windows problem", but I have not come across 
this need to explicitly register the certificate in this way before and 
then there is the "Bug Mailman version 2.0.13" message.

My solution: stick to the mail interface.

Gordon

At 01:53 AM 11/02/2003, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
>i didn't seen any replies to this.  Martin Maechler the mail admin
>is in the mountains for a couple of weeks.  i have had no problems
>with navigator 7.0 under windows.  perhaps you can use that
>in the mean time.
>
>---
>Vince Carey, PhD
>Ass't Prof Med (Biostatistics)
>Harvard Medical School
>Channing Laboratory - ph 6175252265 fa 6177311541
>181 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02115 USA
>stvjc@channing.harvard.edu
>
>On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Gordon Smyth wrote:
>
> > I have been unable after several attempts to use the mailman www interface
> > to the Bioconductor mailing list. If I press any of the action buttons
> > (subscribe, edit options etc) I get a message which says
> >
> > "Bug in Mailman version 2.0.13
> >
> > We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> > Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> > traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but
> > the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs."
> >
> > This occurs whether or not I have filled in the form.
> >
> > I also get a Security Alert box alerting me that the site's security
> > certificate is not trusted everytime I access any of the mailman www pages.
> >
> > I am running Internet Explorer 5.50 under Windows 2000 Professional.
> >
> > Gordon
> > 
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> > Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
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