Re: [Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:21 AM -0400 2003/08/28, Barry Warsaw wrote: Another thing I'd like to do is to make it an option to free all the held messages of someone who posted before they were a member, and then became a member, without explicit admin approval. I'd also like to see an update to the spam checking.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:00, Madsen Wikholm wrote: > I'm not really for using the challenge/response system for personal mail since > I get much mail from unknown senders. But for a list that would normally be > open it would cut down on the spam. I used to have my lists open but due to > spam I'v

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-28 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:03:38PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I'm beginning to think that I may have to put out a Mailman 2.2 and if > so, this feature would be a good candidate. I'd also really like to get my RSS patch in (patch #657951). --amk ___

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-28 Thread Madsen Wikholm
* Barry Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Robert Millan mentioned ASK, which I hadn't heard about before, but it > also makes me think of TMDA. Yupp, challenge/response was exactly what I was thinking of. One could ofcourse use the TMDA or ASK for this but being included in mailman directly woul

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Handling of private gzipped archives

2003-08-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:06, Matthew Galgoci wrote: > Hi Folks! Hi Matthew! > I checked Mailman 2.1.2 to see if any of this is still done, and apparently the > decompression issue still is, at > least in the copy I have here. (haven't checked cvs head). Here's my version of a > fix for this: >

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:39, Madsen Wikholm wrote: > While reading an article about spam-prevention it hit me that one way to > easily cut down on spam on an open list, would be to have mailman send out a > confirmation message for non-member posts. If the sender confirms then, > address gets adde

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Python Book

2003-08-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:12, Kory Wheatley wrote: > What is the best book to learn Python, for a beginner and than another > book for the advanced features? I haven't read any of the more recent Python books. I learned Python by reading the tutorial, which is still a good, cheap way to learn Pyt