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@gordon-smyth
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WEHI, Melbourne, Australia

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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@vincent-j-carey-jr-4
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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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- > Dr Gordon K Smyth, Senior Research Scientist, Bioinformatics, > Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, > 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic 3050, Australia > Tel: (03) 9345 2326, Fax (03) 9347 0852, > Email: smyth@wehi.edu.au, www: http://www.statsci.org > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >
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@gordon-smyth
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WEHI, Melbourne, Australia

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

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> 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. I just used the Wizard under IE 6.0 (win 2000 NT) and confirm part of what you have said -- each time I go for the web interface from a new IE session, the certificate is challenged. Perhaps Martin needs to get a different certificate. But I did not have any problem using the interface to look at the archives, or to view the subscriber list, change options, etc., under this version of IE. It could be that I am grandfathered in. Others will have to try to trigger the Bug Mailman error.
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I haven't had any trouble going through the archives, but Chimera (on OS X obviously) definitely complains about the certificate. On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 10:13 PM, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote: >> 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. > > I just used the Wizard under IE 6.0 (win 2000 NT) and confirm > part of what you have said -- each time I go for the web interface > from a new IE session, the certificate is challenged. Perhaps > Martin needs to get a different certificate. But I did not have > any problem using the interface to look at the archives, or to > view the subscriber list, change options, etc., under this > version of IE. It could be that I am grandfathered in. Others > will have to try to trigger the Bug Mailman error. > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu) "Oook" - The Librarian
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> part of what you have said -- each time I go for the web interface > from a new IE session, the certificate is challenged. Perhaps > Martin needs to get a different certificate. But I did not have I remember a while back seeing something aboutthis on the R-help list. I forget the reason but basically we just have to deal with the fact that you have to get a new cert every time.
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@gordon-smyth
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WEHI, Melbourne, Australia

Installing IE6.0 for Windows solves most of the problem. IE still complains that the certificate is not trusted, but it does this only once on entry to the site instead of continuously, and the bug message no longer appears.

Gordon

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