[Mailman-Users] Control of newsgroup posters
Is there a simple way to control newsgroup posters? We interface our mailman list to a newsgroup. We find that not only do people who post via the newsgroup NOT have to subscribe to our email list, we also cannot hold their posts for moderation. We would like the opposite of both of these. Thanks, apologies if it is in the FAQ (which it usually is), I have searched in vain for the answer using 'newsgroup' and 'moderation'. David -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Control of newsgroup posters
David Beaumont wrote: Is there a simple way to control newsgroup posters? We interface our mailman list to a newsgroup. We find that not only do people who post via the newsgroup NOT have to subscribe to our email list, we also cannot hold their posts for moderation. We would like the opposite of both of these. That's not the way it works. The assumption is if you are gating from news that you want all the posts from the news group. It you only want posts on the list from list members and want them moderated by the list, don't gate to the list from the news group, just gate from the list to the news group and have list members post to the list and not the news group. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Control of newsgroup posters
Thanks but we have the newsgroup because some members, albeit a few, prefer a newsgroup interface. They would definitely not want to use the newsgroup to read and then have to use email to post. I am experimenting with the mailman option 'List of non-member addresses whose postings will be immediately held for moderation' and adding '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' which is what shows in the headers of the gated newsgroup posts (with * being a random number). Am I wasting my time looking into that? If not do I have the * right - I don't understand the mailman help line start the line with a ^ character to designate a regular expression match, can someone give examples of that usage to obtain the wildcard function? Thanks David -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro Is there a simple way to control newsgroup posters? We interface our mailman list to a newsgroup. We find that not only do people who post via the newsgroup NOT have to subscribe to our email list, we also cannot hold their posts for moderation. We would like the opposite of both of these. That's not the way it works. The assumption is if you are gating from news that you want all the posts from the news group. It you only want posts on the list from list members and want them moderated by the list, don't gate to the list from the news group, just gate from the list to the news group and have list members post to the list and not the news group. -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Control of newsgroup posters
David Beaumont wrote: Thanks but we have the newsgroup because some members, albeit a few, prefer a newsgroup interface. They would definitely not want to use the newsgroup to read and then have to use email to post. I am experimenting with the mailman option 'List of non-member addresses whose postings will be immediately held for moderation' and adding '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' which is what shows in the headers of the gated newsgroup posts (with * being a random number). Am I wasting my time looking into that? Yes. If the post is gated from usenet, all the member/moderation/non-member tests are bypassed. If not do I have the * right - I don't understand the mailman help line start the line with a ^ character to designate a regular expression match, can someone give examples of that usage to obtain the wildcard function? It's a regular expression, not a wildcard or glob. The correct thing for what you would want is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (see http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html), but that is moot because it won't work. If this is your Mailman installation, and this is the only list you gate from news, you could change the last line of the lines inq = get_switchboard(mm_cfg.INQUEUE_DIR) inq.enqueue(msg, listname = mlist.internal_name(), fromusenet = 1) which begin at line 174 in cron/gate_news from fromusenet = 1) to tolist = 1) This would make the message look like any list post, but you may then run into holds like 'implicit destination' on posts from unmoderated members, but I gather you want them all held anyway. If you have other gated news groups that don't want this behavior, you can still do it, but the change becomes more complex. You might even change the name of cron/gate_news to say cron/our_gate_news and change the crontab accordingly so that your change doesn't get reversed in an upgrade. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
