Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Barry Warsaw wrote: > > I think that if Gmane were to address the issues that Brad and JC have > raised about their operations, then it would be worth reconsidering. +1 :-) jc -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:13 -0700, JC Dill wrote: >> 1) We have never received any such notice. I was one of the MM >> list-owners the first and second times this came around. >> >> 2) Opt-out is wrong. It might, possibly, be not too terribl

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

John A. Martin wrote: > JC> Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> If I was aware of such problems in the past, I honestly don't > >> remember -- I'll place the blame squarely on my overloaded > >> brain, and age. :) Taking a fresh look at this, I say let's do > >> what we can to get the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > On 9/17/06 11:20 PM, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: >>> Great, thanks Barry. I'll take care of getting the MM lists + back >>> archives added to Gmane. The missing Python lists are someone else's >>> problem . Since MM is your project, shouldn't your words above >>> be suffic

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > Although when the lists are added to Gmane, an auto-generated notice > *is* sent to the list-owner address explaining what has happened and > giving them the option to easily opt-out by replying to the notice. > It's possible in the Mailman case that there was some te

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Brad Knowles wrote: > I try very hard to "never say never", but I cannot imagine a > circumstance were we would possibly ever trust them to carry any > Mailman or Python-related content. I *can* imagine - it could (perhaps) happen when they actually follow their stated policy and contact a lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Barry Warsaw wrote: > If I was aware of such problems in the past, I honestly don't > remember -- I'll place the blame squarely on my overloaded brain, and > age. :) Taking a fresh look at this, I say let's do what we can to > get the lists on Gmane, including any back archives. The probl

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > Barry has clearly stated "if the Gmane administrators make a formal > request" and this was the point that past mirroring (or archiving) > requests were rejected, IIRC. I'm not so sure we ever rejected a formal request. IIRC, no formal request has ever been made. Certa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo - resolved

Greg Lindahl wrote: > Since these issues are common to different mailing list managers, is > there a website that contains this kind of info? If not, should we > make one and advertise it to other mailing list communities? I don't know about a website, but there is a mailing list (with archive

[Mailman-Users] ADMIN - Staying on topic - spam filtering/reflecting and list management philosophy are not on topic....

Hey folks, can we try to remember that this is the "mailman-users" list? Discussions about list management philosophy belong on list-managers: and discussions about spam filtering or spam reflecting belong on spam-l:

Re: [Mailman-Users] GMane?

Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:07 PM -0500 2006-02-15, John A. Martin wrote: > >> Heaven forfend! What harm will Gmane do. Why does doing Gmane mean >> doing others? What do you fear from others that would follow from >> doing Gmane. > > Well, the fact that these mailing lists were gatew

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a security hole in Mailman?

Jon D. Slater wrote: > Some are pretty generic ("board") while others are not > ("DesignReviewCommittee"). Are your list submission addresses on the web anywhere? Do a google search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (search both "web" and "groups") and see if you get any matches. If you do, then the email

Re: [Mailman-Users] add Approved: header to subject [dnk]

Dustin Krysak wrote: > Good day. > > I have a moderated list where I have implemented the Approve: header > method. Now with the people using this, having it actually in the > headers is not an option as they do not understand how to modify > them, etc. Now i know there is the option to add

Re: [Mailman-Users] How hard is it to spoof an email?

Jp Possenti wrote: > I have a couple of questions regarding that FAQ link: > > 1. Setting the max_num_recipients to 1 will mean that any time I make a > newsletter to the public, I need to login and approve that request, correct? The number of "recipients" is the number of addresses in the email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weirdness

Lawrence Bowie wrote: > OK .. Here is the reason it says .. > > Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list > > but he is a member of the list. Are headers necessary for you guys to see? Betcha he's not subscribed with the *exact* same address as he's sending the post from.

Re: [Mailman-Users] prevent address spoofs [dnk]

Dustin Krysak wrote: > Good day -- I am looking at using mailman for a list that will just > have 1 -4 addresses that will be authorized to actually post to the > list. I am also looking for a way to manage list members with a web > interface as well as the usual subscription type functions.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stagger script?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Dan, do you know how long it is taking to send to this list now ? Might >> it >> make a difference if you did this at night / off-hours ? > > Yes it is for thefoldmusic.com. To my knowledge, most recipients NEVER even > rece

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman post mailman". Command output: Group mismatch error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo, > > How to repair this error ? : > * * * > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman". Command output: Group > mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed > as > group

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman without hosting mail server

Darich Runyan/OMNI INFOSEC HQ wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. I was afraid that it was possible but > would be very complex/time consuming. I guess I will look into > either migrating hosting of our email in-house, or as John Dennis > pointed out, finding a hosting company that provide

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posting problems to all users of our mailing list...

John W. Baxter wrote: > Note that it's not just the ISP. We regularly get support calls about mail > not being received, when the logs clearly show that the message was > deposited into the user's mailbox and later picked up by the user's machine. > Something on the user's machine (our users prima

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail Delivery Problems

Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: > >>Here is the text of the emails. They are pushing the BondedSender like crazy >> >>- especially since I received an email direct from BondedSender. >> at the address I only used with this ticket to hotmail. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange bounce message

Anne Ramey wrote: > A couple of people have sent replies to one of my lists today and > several of the messages bounced like this: > >=== > > THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY > > YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Where are the bounces?

Brad Knowles wrote: > At 2:57 PM +0200 2005-09-02, Michael Schaarwaechter wrote: > > >> great, mailman handles the most bounces going back to listname-bounces >> itself. But now we have a problem in our Mailserver and would like to >> take a look at these bounces. Is that possible? I didn't find

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails with a Subject in Chinese to a Mailing List

game lover wrote: > I am currently using Mailman 2.1.5 provided by a hosting service. > When I send emails with a subject in Chinese to a mailing list that I > created in Mailman, the emails are always discarded without any > notice to the senders and recipients. Would anyone please help me to > s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umbrella Lists

Marc Silverman wrote: > Forgive me if I didn¹t locate a solution to this ­ I did find some posts > about Umbrella Lists, but nothing addressed my problem: > > I have a dozen mailing lists. > I created an Umbrella List to post to all of them. > The posts go out, but each separate list Holds the mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] nested lists?

Duane Winner wrote: > Hello, > > I have created an announcment mailing list so I can send announcements > to all of my clients member's emails (several dozen). > > I already have 12 unique mailing lists created for each organization of > which these clients are members. These are discussion ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Public link to subscriber-only list?

Brad Knowles wrote: > At 2:18 PM +0200 2005-07-18, Jean Delvare wrote: > > >> 1* Make the list public (possibly by making non-member posts moderated >> rather than rejected). > > > We tried that. The moderators couldn't keep up with all the > spam, plus all the legitimate moderated post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailadress in Header

Christian Vierkant wrote: > Hello, > > I have a little issue with all my mailing lists. For every mailinglist > there is always one fixed user (in the sample below > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) appearing in all outgoing messages. > > We are using Mailman 2.1.2 with Postfix 2.0.14. Here a sample from a

Re: [Mailman-Users] suscribers list in .txt format

Pablo Allietti wrote: > hi all. i need a .txt file with my list suscribers is possible to do > with mailman?? in console or web mode > > i need to invite all my 700 contacts to join other new list. ~/mailman/bin/ has a command called list_members which will do what you want. ---

[Mailman-Users] Head's UP - we changed administrivia settings for the mailman-users and -dev lists

Because the mailman-users and mailman-developers lists frequently discuss administrivia matters and because most users on these lists know how to properly email the list server for administrivia tasks, most administrivia filter matches to these lists are false positives. We have just changed th

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman configuration

Jean-Philippe GIOLA wrote: > Hi all > I'm configuring mailman and I have this error : > "Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be > executed as group "mail", but the system's mail server executed the mail > script as group "nobody" > > Does someone have un idea ? In

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance trouble shooting problem after moving Mailman from one box to another

Thomas Waters wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:10 PM, JC Dill wrote: > >> What about alises? > > There are no aliases <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?query=aliases&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=search

Re: [Mailman-Users] pipermail+archives

Mark Sapiro wrote: > Jean-Philippe GIOLA wrote: > >>I have seen in the list I use that these 2 headers are not all the times >>existing, even if the mail that has been sent is an answer. >>Perhaps it depends of the MUA. > > Yes, it depends on the MUA. The standard says these headers SHOULD be >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic processing

Mark Sapiro wrote: >I know I've seen a note somewhere about this, but I can't find it at >the moment. The best place I can think of off hand, which might be >wrong, is to send them to the mailman-developers@python.org list. > The mailman-developers list is a closed list now. You have to subscribe

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do the spammers do it?

Mike Avery wrote: >Someone else said they are pulling their hair out. Me too! > >This has happened several times - I create a new list for a local >group. I add the users to it myself. I make the list public in the >Mailman/listinfo web page. And within 2 weeks, the list starts getting >spa

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

kalin mintchev wrote: Those messages aren't approved -- they're held. ok, Brad. thanks. sure. they are held. held for approval. they are not "approved". true. are they from subscribed members? some. most are not. but the setting says members_postings_only = 'yes' (ONLY!) That is the setti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Please help...

Mark Sapiro wrote: Brian G. Altman wrote: I am trying to prevent people from replying directly to a Digest that is sent from the mailing list. Why? There are many different reasons why you might want this, and the best solution for your situation will depend on the why. The Reply-To fiel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.

Brad Knowles wrote: At 8:50 AM -0800 2005-01-29, JC Dill wrote: Didn't I say that above? Not that I saw, no. What I read of your message indicated that the virus had infected a normal user and pulled a message out of their sent folder, which would not have had the Approved: header.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.

Mark Sapiro wrote: Furthermore, if such a scenario has occurred or did occur in the future, I suspect it would be just an unlucky accident. While I'm sure that a clever worm creator could deliberately try to exploit this potential vulnerability, I don't think the payoff would be sufficient to justi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.

Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:50 PM -0800 2005-01-28, JC Dill wrote: OK, I'm just speculating here... what if there's a virus/trojan out that is able to take email that a user had already sent (email in the "sent" folder), and resend it with a virus payload (in this case, th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.

Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Guys, I just had a small problem. A virus was just sent to all the list members which had spoofed the moderator's email address. No "requires approval" message was sent, despite the fact that everyone (even the moderator) has the "mod" bit set to "on". http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] newbie question

C. Jon Hinkle wrote: I have been "selected" to set up a Mailman system to communicate with roughly 140 users. I have exactly zero experience with this kind of endevor, although I am not totally techno-challenged. I need to set about 30 of the users to be able to post and reply at will. The rest s

[Mailman-Users] flood of unsubs may be heading your way

In the default mailman install, a subscription is automatically disabled when mail starts repeatedly bouncing. The subscriber is then emailed a reminder every 4 weeks telling them that they are disabled and that they can re-enable their subscription. After 5 weeks the account is removed (unsu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using VERP to avoid sobig bounces?

At 02:17 AM 9/10/2003, you wrote: If we turn on VERP, how is mail to the unqualified -bounces@ address processed? Is it ignored? At the moment we are frequently getting subscriptions disabled on the webdav.org lists (which don't use VERP) by stray SoBig bounces using a real subscriber as the return

Re: [Mailman-Users] forwardingtest-owner@lists.first5ventura.org to another domain?

At 09:52 AM 8/29/2003, Aviram Carmi wrote: PS::REQUEST Whenever responding, please, put your response _under_ the original (previous) posting/message(s), not above them. This is the basics of Netiquette. Also, remove unneeded fragments of previous message(s), especially any "commercial" adver

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing authorised sender

At 10:18 AM 8/27/2003, Mike Dustan wrote: Hi All: Probably a simple answer to this one, but I can't find it. I've authorised Joe Nonmember as an authorised sender to my list. Although he's a non-member and doesn't receive postings, he can post to it without administrative intervention. Now, how

Re: [Mailman-Users] OoooOOookay.......

At 08:43 AM 8/2/2003, Glenn Sieb wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has > been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are > being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errr?? Who's

RE: [Mailman-Users] Analysis of reasons for bounce responses

At 09:30 PM 7/31/2003, Christine De La Rosa wrote: Hi Richard, Here is what I know so far, mail for most list members seem to be going through for the most part. About two weeks ago MM mass unscribed about 300 folx. Now we seem to have stablized the members but the owners of the lists are getting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read Only List

At 08:20 PM 7/23/2003, Ed Whitcomb wrote: Is there a way to make a read only list? Look for "announcement list". I've read through the docs, but I didn't see anything about that. Also check the FAQ and archives: Mailman FAQ: Searchable Archives:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer message in html email

At 06:45 AM 7/16/2003, Vivek Khera wrote: > "JB" == Jason Buscema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JB> Regardless, I still need to figure out a way to have a personalized footer JB> message in an HTML message. Changing the message from HTML to plain text JB> isn't an option either. In one of my bus

[Mailman-Users] The easiest way to subscribe with a no deliverysetting?

I need to add ~80 names to a list and have these particular subscribers set to not receive email. Is there a way to do this when bulk adding? Is there a way to request this type of setting when adding if you subscribe via email? I know that I can mass add them, then go to the administrative pa

[Mailman-Users] more names per page in the admin lookup?

I've asked before, but had no answer: If some kind person will remind me how to change the administrative page setting so we get more than 30 names per page, it would really help. Thanks! jc -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

[Mailman-Users] Making it easy to subscribe with a "nomail" setting

I need to add ~80 names to a list and have these particular subscribers set to not receive email. Is there a way to do this when bulk adding? Is there a way to request this type of setting when adding if you subscribe via email? There isn't a way when subscribing one's self via the webpage. T

Re: [Mailman-Users] List email pre-approval

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:40, Steve Sterling wrote: With Majordomo, you could pre-approve a message to the list, say from an otherwise unsubscribed user or to a moderated list. I tried with my mailman, but it treats the Approved: first line as normal message body. Somewhere, I remember seeing that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umbrella List Spam Protection

Links at Momsview wrote: I currently have a VERY large ( >100k) announce only list (always moderated) running mailman 2.1 under Postfix. For performance reasons I'm considering splitting this list into 26 sublists based on the first letter of each subscriber email. I would then use an umbrella

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with sending HTML mail and using externalweblinks for images

Jon Carnes wrote: BTW: Linux on the desktop helps break this "invasion" of privacy. My Evolution email client is set to "not" download images from html email. Though I can click on the email and have it download if I want it to. Mozilla does this on Windoze too (using this feature with Mozill

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Bouncing Mail - How is it treated?

On 07:57 PM 9/17/02, Will Yardley wrote: >Angel Gabriel wrote: > >> I'd like to know how bouncing mail is treated, is it removed from the list? >> Will I be notified of each bouncing address?? How long before it's taken off >> the list? What about people who use web mail, can mailman tell th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem enforcing text/plain posts only policy

On 10:57 AM 7/16/02, Tim Hutchinson wrote: >Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, although this sounds like >a better solution, I'm just a list owner and don't have access to the >mailman installation (and I'd be surprised if our ISP would be prepared >to do this, either). I'd be more

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman wrapper post function

On 08:55 AM 10/5/01, Sandra wrote: >Hello! > > I have mailman installed on my system, that has postfix installed as >a MTA. > I have two postfix configurations running on my system, one that gets >mail from internet >and run AMAVIS, an anti-virus and another configuration that treats lo

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members by other users

On 11:42 PM 10/1/01, Alain Chappuis wrote: >> There is a binary called "remove_members" in ~mailman/bin/... it can >> remove anyone from any list. Of course you need telnet or ssh access to >> the server to use it. If you need to make this possible via the web, then >> you will need to do

Re: [Mailman-Users] News group transfers...

On 11:11 AM 10/3/01, Mike Avery wrote: >I'm playing with using mailman to move some of my >favorite news groups into mailing lists, and have run into >a snag. > >What I'd like to do is have everything from the >newsgroup make it to the mailing list, but only let >subscribers to the mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple identical copies (100s) ad nauseum being sent as daily digest

On 11:55 PM 6/24/01, Dan and Robby Grether wrote: >Dear Mailman-Users, > >We are again having the problem of multiple (100s) of emails coming from >our mailing list. The regular emailings are working fine, but the vol 17 >msg 4 of our daily digest is spewing out 100s of copies to those who we

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman for Windows

On 02:11 PM 6/7/13, Lars T. Soeftestad wrote: >Hi Mailmen/women! > >Have loked at Mailman, and thought it would be perfect for my use. Which >is: a regular newsletter to people working on community-based natural >resource management (CBNRM), mostly in developing countries, as an adjunct >to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

On 08:17 AM 6/13/01, Satya wrote: >On Jun 13, 2001 at 07:53, JC Dill wrote: > >>There are too many people on the Internet these days who CAN NOT view all >>the message headers. AOL hides many headers. Hotmail hides many >>headers. Yahoo hides many headers. Even

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

On 08:44 AM 6/13/01, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > >On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 07:53 AM, JC Dill wrote: > >> I subscribe to the "teach them to fish" method, > >I used to. Now I'm in the "parents don't want justice, they want quiet" >m

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

On 06:56 AM 6/13/01, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >> "EG" == Enriko Groen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >EG> Wouldn't it be good to state that Mailman is for Unix servers >EG> only in the beginning of the websites pages? I think it would >EG> bounce of a few dozen of people who

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

On 04:38 AM 6/13/01, Ed Wilts wrote: >On Wednesday 13 June 2001 02:25 am, Enriko Groen wrote: > >> And frustrated too because they get 70 emails or so a day and don't know >> how to leave the list. > >All they have to do is to display the headers of one of the mail messages. >The unsubscrib

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce Only Lists

On 01:48 PM 6/8/01, Ashley Horn wrote: >Where can I find info on creating announce only lists? If you search the list archives (see URL below) for "announce only" you will find many posts and links to web FAQs that answer this frequently asked question. The web FAQ is also referenced in the R

Re: [Mailman-Users] Vhosts with Mailman 2.05

On 11:02 PM 5/19/01, Darron Froese wrote: >On 5/17/01 2:20 AM, "N6REJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all. >> Pardon me for really sounding lame, but I'm having a heck of a time finding >> any documentation that explains how to modify mailman so that it will answer >> for vhosts also

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL User Posts and =20 Problem

On 12:18 PM 5/29/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >When an AOL user ... versions 4,5, and 6 inclusive, posts to a pairList the >immediate postings are delivered and appear normal to those users receiving >in MIME or plain text formats. The digest formats are quite screwed up in >that they show the AOL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating an announcement list?

On 03:06 AM 5/27/01, Matt Staroscik wrote: > >I'm trying to create a read-only list, where people can sign up to receive >announcements and *can not post*, but I am not seeing an easy way to do >this with mailman. At least not gracefully. This site is referenced in your mailman README: http:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error!!!

On 04:20 AM 5/27/01, Armando P. wrote: >Hello world! > >I have tried to subscribe a list, but after to have received a message >in order to confirm the registration, the reply he has originated this >message: > >A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >recipie

Re: [Mailman-Users] Vhosts with Mailman 2.05

On 11:02 PM 5/19/01, Darron Froese wrote: >On 5/17/01 2:20 AM, "N6REJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all. >> Pardon me for really sounding lame, but I'm having a heck of a time finding >> any documentation that explains how to modify mailman so that it will answer >> for vhosts also

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

On 11:32 PM 5/8/01, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >It's like cough medicine. It tastes rotten going down, but long term, it >makes you feel better. Sometimes, you take a little pain now for the future. This is similar to the pain mail server admins (and their associated support staff) went through

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! My list digest users overwhelmed

On 07:34 PM 5/6/01, Louiza wrote: >Hello, > >The digest users of my list have been overwhelmed with multiple posts >(upwards to 100) of the same digest version today. I do not know how >to solve this problem. Can anyone help me please? Look at your MTA queue. This is usually a problem with

Re: [Mailman-Users] kindly remove me from this and any lists you manage or consult with

On 10:09 AM 4/19/01, Gerhard Gonter wrote: >According to Leslie Aday: >> please remove this immediatelyi am getting hundreds of names and e-mails >> which I DO NOT WANT. >> REMOVE ME FROM THESE LISTS> >> THANK YOU > >What are you talking about? Presumably some one has mistakenly believed t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Authentication using alternate headers?

On 07:58 PM 4/17/01, Ashton Treadway wrote: > >Hi: > >Is there any way to configure Mailman to authenticate posters against >headers other than From:? > >I have a subscriber who frequently changes From: addresses, but has a >consistent Reply-To: address, and Mailman is properly rejecting h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Request mail problems

On 07:59 AM 4/17/01, Satya wrote: >[posted and mailed] > >On Apr 17, 2001 at 16:10, Rob Gould wrote: > >>Hi...When a mail subscriber sends a request to my server such as >>"help", the reply he/she gets begins with the message saying that >>"there were problems with the email commands you se

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I make a list 'moderator post only'

On 08:35 PM 4/9/01, Jesse Kornblum wrote: > >I'm trying to set up an announcements list, similar to mailman-announce in >that I should be the only person posting to the list. Is there a way to do >without having to manually reject every post by every other person? (e.g. >An option to 'restric

Re: [Mailman-Users] trim/cut/delete (was RE:Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1115 - 16 msgs)

On 06:00 AM 3/31/01, Menega Sabidussi wrote: >[[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:] >> no > >followed by the complete digest, Vol 1 #1115 - 16 msgs. > >was this a demonstration that blocking >completely quoted digests does *not* work Is there an option to block completely quoted digests? That would

Re: [Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available now or not?

On 03:32 PM 3/30/01, J C Lawrence wrote: > >> 2) Is [content filtering on the headers or body, to block messages >> that are in reply to an entire digest] possible with mailman? > >Yes, within the minor limitations of regular expressions. So, in other words, it would be trivially easy for so

[Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available now or not?

On 11:05 AM 3/30/01, Ron Echeverri wrote: >I disagree. Since we can't control spammers, perhaps we should simply >control ourselves, and instead of complaining about the spam, we >should simply delete it. I'm sure Barry is doing all he can to limit >the influx of crap, but there's little he

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer

On 11:03 AM 3/29/01, Phydeaux wrote: >The spam is *quite* easy for a human to detect. I hereby volunteer for >duty if called Me to! jc -- Real courtesy requires human effort and understanding. Never let your machine or your habit send courtesy copies. ---

[Mailman-Users] Keeping quoted digests off the list

One of my majordomo lists also has a digest option. I have the following taboo header settings in the majordomo config file for that list: # taboo_headers[regexp_array] (undef) # If any of the headers matches one of these regexps, then the # message will be b

Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like toreceive information on registering your pet online for free?

On 12:12 PM 3/27/01, Dan Mick wrote: > > >JC Dill wrote: > >> It sounds as if you are ignoring or overlooking my proposed solution which >> continues to let non-subscriber posts go through to the list unmoderated, >> when they contain keyword(s) indicative of

Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?

On 03:12 PM 3/26/01, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > >> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >JCL> There is a logn standing tradition for support lists for >JCL> products to not be closed to non-subscribers. > >There are a couple of issues to consider, some technical, so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: More spam :-(

On 09:46 AM 3/26/01, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >JC Dill wrote: > >> It shouldn't be that hard for those who write mailing list software to >> program and configure their own "user's list" to only accept posts that are >> either A) from subs

More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?

On 06:02 PM 3/25/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello! > >Would you like to know how to register your pet online for free? No, but I'd like to know what it takes to get this list configured so it stops allowing spammers to post to it. It shouldn't be that hard for those who write mailing list s

[Mailman-Users] Keeping spam off open lists

Does mailman have a configuration setting such that everyone who is subscribed to a list can post unmoderated, but email from a non-subscriber will be sent to a moderator for approval? If so, can *this* list please be appropriately configured? If you want to let non-subscribers post without mo

Scam (was Re: [Mailman-Users] {URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL})

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