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

2003-08-29 Thread Terri Oda
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:42:40PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > I also made the source-code modification so that the default > action for held messages is "discard" as opposed to "defer". This > way, I can get rid of hundreds of held messages in a single button > click. Yes, more dangero

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

2003-08-29 Thread John W Baxter
At 22:42 +0200 8/28/2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > There is already the option "Should the list moderators get >immediate notice of new requests, as well as daily notices about >collected ones?", which I was very grateful to be able to turn off. Perhaps more useful the list admin could set peri

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

2003-08-29 Thread John W Baxter
At 10:21 -0400 8/28/2003, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> In additon to the full subscription option there could perhaps be a thread >> subscription which would subscribe the sender to only receive mails from the >> thread started by him/her. This might become somewhat heavy though. > >It's a great idea tha

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] 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] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Millan
Sounds a lot like ASK (Active Spam Killer) http://www.paganini.net/ask/ On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:39:19PM +0300, Madsen Wikholm wrote: > Hi! > > Lately I've been getting a lot of spam to many of the lists that I > administer. > > While reading an article about spam-prevention it hit me that

[Mailman-Developers] Non-member post confirmation

2003-08-27 Thread Madsen Wikholm
Hi! Lately I've been getting a lot of spam to many of the lists that I administer. 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 confirm