Mark Sapiro wrote: > Steve Campbell wrote: > >> I have set up a notification list for a department here. A member sent a >> notice to the list and also included some other people in the CC fields. >> > <snip> > >> Is there some way I can allow that to go through without a complaint and >> why would that be a problem to mailman? >> > > > Set Privacy options...->Recipient filters->max_num_recipients to 0 if > you want to allow any number of addresses in To: and Cc:, or to some > large number if you want to limit it to that many. > > This setting exists for two reasons. > > It is/was an anti-spam measure as many messages with large numbers of > recipients are or in the past were spam. > > It also allows you to decide whether you want to accept a post that > exposes possibly unrelated Cc: addresses to the list members. > >
Mark, Thanks very much. I see what you mean by the exposure, and I will try to talk this person out of using so many addresses in any post (which is why we set up the mailling list in the first place). I could probably create an umbrella thingy here to better do what they want to do in the future. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
