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  • Help Setting up Stump and Webstump Documentation

    From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 13 22:02:25 2020
    As some of you might now, the B8MB took over the management of the Stump
    and Webstump projects. Mostly because we don't want to see the software disappear in case Igor Chudov's (the original developer) web server ever
    went down and the source code was lost. Stump/Webstump were always a GNU project but until recently they wasn't hosted in source control anywhere.
    Now they're available on https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/stump/ and https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/webstump/

    The documentation for these programs is pretty lacking and it assumes
    advanced Linux/Unix experience from 1998. I'm hoping that someone with experience setting up them up can help. I am in charge of documentation
    and I am updating it for an audience of a reasonably experienced current
    Linux user but probably not someone so advanced that they can hack
    sendmail or edit Perl code on the fly.

    Any help would be appreciated if anyone remembers how they set it up in
    the first place. I would normally post this to news.admin.moderation
    where this topic should probably go, but I don't know if anyone actually
    uses it anymore.

    Thanks!

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    JE

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  • From Matthew Vernon@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Mon Nov 16 11:05:33 2020
    Jason Evans <[email protected]> writes:

    Any help would be appreciated if anyone remembers how they set it up in
    the first place. I would normally post this to news.admin.moderation
    where this topic should probably go, but I don't know if anyone actually
    uses it anymore.

    chiark hosts a number of stump+webstump-based moderation systems for
    uk.* groups; their setups include a bunch of very local-specific things
    (e.g. the mail forward files) as well as more generalisable setup
    (e.g. utility scripts for templating out rejection messages).

    They've diverged from a common source (e.g. uk.legal.moderated took out
    the block list entirely, then added it back later but without the "add
    poster to block list" button); but the nominal upstream is "modbot-mtm"
    which locally moderates misc.test.moderated (for testing purposes!). You
    can find all of their stuff in git:

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~webstump/git

    HTH,

    Matthew

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Matthew Vernon on Mon Nov 16 15:55:35 2020
    On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:05:33 +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:

    chiark hosts a number of stump+webstump-based moderation systems for
    uk.* groups; their setups include a bunch of very local-specific things
    (e.g. the mail forward files) as well as more generalisable setup (e.g. utility scripts for templating out rejection messages).

    They've diverged from a common source (e.g. uk.legal.moderated took out
    the block list entirely, then added it back later but without the "add
    poster to block list" button); but the nominal upstream is "modbot-mtm"
    which locally moderates misc.test.moderated (for testing purposes!). You
    can find all of their stuff in git:

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~webstump/git

    HTH,

    Matthew


    Wow, thanks a lot for the input. I had no idea that was there.


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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Matthew Vernon on Mon Nov 16 15:56:26 2020
    On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:05:33 +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:

    Jason Evans <[email protected]> writes:

    Any help would be appreciated if anyone remembers how they set it up in
    the first place. I would normally post this to news.admin.moderation
    where this topic should probably go, but I don't know if anyone
    actually uses it anymore.

    chiark hosts a number of stump+webstump-based moderation systems for
    uk.* groups; their setups include a bunch of very local-specific things
    (e.g. the mail forward files) as well as more generalisable setup (e.g. utility scripts for templating out rejection messages).

    They've diverged from a common source (e.g. uk.legal.moderated took out
    the block list entirely, then added it back later but without the "add
    poster to block list" button); but the nominal upstream is "modbot-mtm"
    which locally moderates misc.test.moderated (for testing purposes!). You
    can find all of their stuff in git:

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~webstump/git

    HTH,

    Matthew





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