Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: Emergency Broadcast

2009-11-23 Thread Gadi Evron
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Gadi Evron writes: crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature? I think that, as Mark alludes to, this feature would be harder to implement usefully than you'd think. It sounds easy, but remember, in a very large share cases where

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: Emergency Broadcast

2009-11-23 Thread Gadi Evron
with Mailman's vision? 3. How difficult is it to implement? At 5:48 PM +0900 on 11/23/09, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Gadi Evron writes: crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature? I think that, as Mark alludes to, this feature would be harder to implement

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: Emergency Broadcast

2009-11-22 Thread Gadi Evron
://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ge%40linuxbox.org -- Gadi Evron, g...@linuxbox.org. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Gadi Evron
I often see addresses popping up and subscribing to all visible lists on my servers. Sometimes they're a curious individual, and most times they are spammers harversting addresses (as these are open only to admin). I wonder what the coding price would be, if it can even work with mailman,

[Mailman-Users] honeypot lists Re: mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Gadi Evron
from others on it as well :) On Jul 14, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: I often see addresses popping up and subscribing to all visible lists on my servers. Sometimes they're a curious individual, and most times they are spammers harversting addresses (as these are open only to admin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Major problems with privacy and mailman lists and harvesters

2008-05-23 Thread Gadi Evron
Hi Steve. Thank you for your email, it is well researched and conveys your point of view. Your points on inconsistency in protecting email addresses in the archives are interesting. Also, I am no lover of spammers. That said, can you break down your suggestions to those relevant to the

[Mailman-Users] email notifications verbosity [was: Stop all -owner mail]

2007-11-16 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Mark Sapiro wrote: Nate Rudd wrote: As, I forgot that I would like the e-mails from the Mailman system to still reach me, would there be anything I am missing if I set a rule in my e-mail program that says: Any mail not from mailman-bounces to *-owner - Delete or Mark

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

2006-11-28 Thread Gadi Evron
Is this in the FAQ anywhere? On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: At 6:30 PM -0500 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: Of course, if machine 1 went down, all the messages in its hash slices would sit unprocessed, but it would be a fairly simple matter to reconfigure machine 2 to handle

[Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Gadi Evron
[x-posted to an anti-spam list] Hi. This is not specific to mailman, but I had a lot of trouble with it. I am sure I am not the only one, so I figured I'll share. In recent months the problem of moderation, especially with large lists, has become even more significant. The amounts of spam

Re: [Mailman-Users] deleting pending for approval from command line

2006-11-10 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Gerardo Herzig wrote: Hi all. I have a user who does not check pending for approvals so long, and now the mailman web interface trows an error (an timeout or resources issue, not shure). The thing is: Can i delete those pending messages from command line? Can i delete

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Patrick Bogen wrote: I'm not entirely sure what the point of this message was. Bearing that in mind, you shouldn't be using moderation as a first-line anti-spam defense. Your MTA should be tagging emails as spam (e.g., using Spamassassin, or something better suited to

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Carl Zwanzig wrote: I'm not sure how this fails a reality test. Are any anti-spam measures in place currently? If not, mailman is certainly not the place to start. That place is the incoming mail MTA. (If you run your own servers, installing spamassassin shoundn't take

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Dragon wrote: Gadi Evron wrote: I cannot afford to spam filter some mailing lists. That's my problem. With those I do, a lot still comes through and I am pretty good at it. Sending the messages back is causing a lot of problem, and should be considered again

Re: [Mailman-Users] Banning members

2006-11-10 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Martin Dennett wrote: On a totally different tack, is there any list available for future wants for the software? I have a couple of things that I think may be useful, and would like to know if there's anyway I can make them known? Actually, we are all thankful for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Serious Performance issue

2006-10-17 Thread Gadi Evron
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Peter Kofod wrote: Hi Everyone: I am new to this list having just implemented mailman for an announce-list we host. In short, the performance is horrible. The list has approx 40,000 subscribers and the avg message going out is about 40K (some embedded imagery). I

[Mailman-Users] Google Code Search

2006-10-08 Thread Gadi Evron
Hi guys. I've been playing a lot with Google's new code search, collecting a lot of search strings relating to security. I searched for TBD and then TBD security. The very first hit is from mailman 2.0.9: 38: * * TBD: This file needs a security audit. */ Just thought

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP!!!

2006-06-21 Thread Gadi Evron
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Kane STERLING wrote: I sent a mail out to one of my lists and it's sent over 50 of the same mail to it! How can I stop it immediately?! Kane Clear the queue? Kill the server? How IMMEDIATE do you want it? These would also lose potentially other messages. Kane

Re: [Mailman-Users] Totally unmoderated user???

2006-03-16 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: Daniel Hawker wrote: I would like to have a couple of my members to be able to be completely unmoderated and hence be able to bypass this limit. I trust they won't send anything truly silly, however they send out regular information packs (around

[Mailman-Users] relaying spam using mailing lists

2006-03-15 Thread Gadi Evron
A friend of mine just wrote about what happened to an ezmlm mailing list he runs, and how it was recently used to relay spam (quoted below). All mailing list managers return bounces of some sort, for subscriptions, unsubscriptions, moderation, etc. (*configuration dependent*), some just quote

Re: [Mailman-Users] relaying spam using mailing lists

2006-03-15 Thread Gadi Evron
Brad Knowles wrote: At 11:35 AM -0800 2006-03-15, Heather Madrone wrote: Don't relay mail to Mailman that you don't want Mailman to receive. Install good spam filters and tune your MDA so that it won't deliver scattershot messages to Mailman. We've gone through this discussion

[Mailman-Users] resent-to possibly gets a message through moderation?

2004-12-30 Thread Gadi Evron
PROTECTED] If it isn't it and I completely mis-understood what happened, or you require any further information to find out how mailman let this email through, please let me know. I am somewhat worried. Thank you for your help, Gadi Evron