On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Tom Yates wrote:

While I'm posting meta-stuff, I've had some difficulty in getting the CAPTCHA to work in the list subscription page (as anyone who's tried to subscribe recently will have noticed). If you're a python hacker who doesn't mind helping me debug the problem, I'd appreciate an email **off-list**, as I'm definitely not one.

Vast thanks to John Constable jc18@sanger.ac.uk, who got this working. Web subscriptions are now re-enabled.

I should also mention that it was pointed out to me that the "digest" function of the list was almost useless, because the volume threshold was set so low that a new digest was created nearly every time a message was sent. I have increased it considerably, so people subscribed to the digest should have been getting one a day, except when traffic is exceptionally high.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.