On Mar 24, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Elaine Ashton wrote: >> This is not correct. The email will be held for moderation which >> means it may sit in a queue awaiting release or, possibly bouncing/ >> rejection by a moderator for some time. >> The mail is not bounced automatically if you are not subscribed. >> However, if you find yourself frequently posting to the lists, it >> would be a nice idea to subscribe and adjust your mail filters >> accordingly. > > That depends on the setup of the lists. Some lists on > opensolaris.org are auto setup to bounce non-subscribers - at least > they were before someone took it apon themselves to go and make > changes to the mailman configs for project and community lists they > aren't the leaders for.
Unless some lists are being very creative with the configurations, mailman isn't so flexible as to allow you to bounce/reject all non- subscribers. I'm fairly certain that isn't quite possible with current or earlier versions of mailman as this is software engineered for the non-technically savvy to configure and operate at the list level. And I'm not sure if I understand the comment about changes to the configs. Please, do, be very specific as I suspect there's a lack of information. e.