On 12/06/2020 17:13:02, Bernie Cosell <[email protected]> wrote:
One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long,
inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing
list
have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions:
1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of removing the
alias
that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a "sender
filter"
that rejected everyone or something like that.
Malcolm Austen:
There is the emergency moderation option as long as you are OK with
notifications of individual arrives being suppressed. If you want to retain
that, just drop the maximum message size down to 1kb - I don't think there are
many people around who could (bother to!) craft an email (and it's headers) to
get through that restriction!
2) is there a way to block a *single* topic.. I know that can be defeated but
it'll
stop the particular thread at least for while while the rest of the list can go
on.
Malcolm Austen:
I would do this by going to Privacy options >> Spam filters and hold on the
basis of a keyword in the subject line - e.g. ^subject:.*pandemic.*
I set most lists up with a super-catcher to catch naive posters:
^subject:.*(\{admin\}|\btest|virus|spam|scam|(un)?subscribe|digest|message|renewal).*
Keep safe, Malcolm.
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