At 5:40 PM -0400 2006-05-26, Peter C.S. Adams wrote:
> I'm not saying this is right for everyone, but neither is setting lists to
> reject.
You run your lists your way, I run my lists my way. Neither way
is the best solution in all cases.
This is why we have multiple options
Thus spake Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 5/26/2006 2:03 AM:
> Think about spam in general. Which is worse? Dealing with large
> quantities of spam to try to find the relatively small amount of
> legitimate mail? Or throwing everything away that might potentially
> be spam, possibly inc
On 5/26/06, Christopher Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree in part. My site hosts over 500 lists and has about 100,000
> subscribers. By default, all new lists are set to Reject messages from
> "non-members" and sends them a message indicating that either their address
> has changed, they
At 5:32 PM -0400 2006-05-25, Peter C.S. Adams wrote:
> In the old days, this was certainly true, but today, when 70-80% of all
> emails on the internet are spam, you may easily find that rejecting all
> those messages will (a) eat up a lot of your internet bandwidth, and (b)
> exacerbate the p
Thus spake Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 5/25/2006 9:54 AM:
> Generally speaking, the recommended solution is to automatically
> reject such messages -- which informs the sender, and allows them to
> take appropriate action.
In the old days, this was certainly true, but today, when 70-80
At 7:50 AM -0400 2006-05-25, Fred Atkinson wrote:
> Is there any option that can be set in Mailman so that a message by a
> non-member is automatically deleted, rather that pestering the list manager
> about appoving/deleting it?
Deleting? No, not really. You could automatically
There sure is, for Mailman 2.1.5 (and I belive earlier versions as
well):
go to Privacy > Sender filters > scroll down to "Action to take for
postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined" (near
the bottom) > set to Discard, yahoo no more pestering.
Some other good options on
Is there any option that can be set in Mailman so that a message by a
non-member is automatically deleted, rather that pestering the list manager
about appoving/deleting it?
I've just moved to a new site. I had Mailman on both sites. Since I've
gotten onto the new one, I am getting these
