For both non subscribers and for moderated subscribers to a Mailman list you can set the list behavior to "discard" for unwanted posts. The posts go straight to the cosmic bit bucket, no further questions asked :-)
Thus spake Sam Varshavchik on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:31:01PM CST > Ben Kennedy writes: > > >On 21 12 2004 at 7:04 pm -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > >>Sourceforge uses mailman. I find it rather annoying. It keeps pestering > >>me, every day, with this thing or that thing. > > > >I run a couple of lists and don't have such a problem. > > > >>Instead of rejecting messages from non-subscribers out of hand, or > >>rejecting messages for other similar reasons, it queues it up, and bugs > >>me to manually remove the message from the queue. > > > >You can configure automatic behaviour for these things if you don't want > >to be pestered. > > I find nothing in Sourceforge's mailman interface to tell it to STOP it > from pestering me to manually cancel messages mailman intercepted and did > not distribute to the list: messages from nonsubscribers, suspected spam, > huge messages, and so on. > > >>It's gotten to the point where I actually wrote a Perl script to handle > >>mailman's obnoxiousness automatically. > > > >Care to share? I am curious about what things it deals with. It may be > >of interest to the rest of us for similar reasons. > > It runs the 'admindb' command, parses the HTML output to get the list of > message numbers in the admin queue, then sends a POST nuking everything. > > -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
