[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Malcolm Austen
Ha, I started typing before Mark's message arrived here. I will add that yes, I know the trailing '.*' is not needed. I put it in somewhere back in time and have never bothered to remove it. Malcolm. --  Malcolm Austen On 12/06/2020 21:49:45, Malcolm Austen wrote: On 12/06/2020 17:13:02, Bern

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Malcolm Austen
On 12/06/2020 17:13:02, Bernie Cosell wrote: One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing list have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions: 1) is there a way to tem

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/12/20 10:03 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > It'd still be nice to be able to "ban" a particular subject As suggested in another reply, you can use header filters for this. Under Privacy options... -> Spam filters you can create a spam filter rule with a regexp something like ^subject:.*hot to

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Bernie Cosell
On 12 Jun 2020 at 12:40, Bernie Cosell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2020 at 9:28, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > > > On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of > > removing the alias > > > that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Richard Damon
On 6/12/20 11:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, > inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing > list > have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions: > > 1) is there

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Bernie Cosell
On 12 Jun 2020 at 9:28, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of > removing the alias > > that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a > "sender filter" > > that rejected everyone o

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Timothy Jasionowski
Would they consider moderation? They can let it pile up and reject or let things through that meet their objective. Timothy Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2020, at 12:12, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, > inappropriate,

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

2020-06-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of removing the alias that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a "sender filter" that rejected everyone or something like that. You can put it on "emergency moder