On 8/23/06, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm also considering adding these capabilities (which may or may not be > > implicit in the above description) to combat spam: > > > > * Don't allow email from non-subscribers > > * Moderate email from new subscribers some period of time (probably a day > > to a week) > > > > Does mail.python.org do either or these things and/or is this generally a > > good practice? > > You mean, do we do these things at the MTA level? No. The MTA has > no clue as to who is a subscriber and who is not. These things could > potentially be done at the Mailman level, however. Unfortunately, > while you can configure Mailman to moderate (or reject) all posts > from non-subscribers, I don't know of any way to configure it to do > something like what you suggest based on the time of day.
I think he meant: auto-moderate new users, and unmoderate them after some amount of time has passed (e.g., after a day or after a week) -- - Patrick Bogen ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
