On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
While updating list settings in the mailman administrative
interface today, I noticed that the list of addresses we
can provide for non-subscribers allowed to post to the list
can include names of other mailing lists on the mailman
installation:
accept_these_nonmembers (privacy): List of non-member addresses
whose postings should be automatically accepted.
Postings from any of these non-members will be automatically
accepted with no further moderation applied. Add member addresses
one per line; start the line with a ^ character to designate a
regular expression match. A line consisting of the @ character
followed by a list name specifies another Mailman list in this
installation, all of whose member addresses will be accepted for
this list.
Ideally we'd be able to do @* to allow cross posting between any
lists - does anyone know if that's possible or what the syntax
would be?
I'm aware of the option and we removed all the wildcards a few months
back as you may remember the raving anti-semitic spammer who collected
a few addresses and sent them through to the lists, most of which
sailed right on through due to these wildcards. The only ones which
didn't snagged on a size restriction. This generated a good deal of
grief for us from the very top of the CEO foodchain and I remain
unenthusiastic regarding their return.
So, to answer your question, yes, I could provide a regex that would
match sun.com addresses but due to the above, I won't. I can't stop
you from doing it yourself, but I do occasionally sweep the list
configurations and remove them.
Given that I personally clear the moderation queue a minimum of twice
a day, per day, including weekends, the inconvenience to you and the
end-users who either cannot or do not wish to manage a subscription to
the list is minimal compared to the alternative.
If not, what about making a autogenerated list, like the
core-contributors list, but which blocks all e-mails and
just exists to be added as @opensolaris-subscribers to
the other lists accept lists - the set of all opensolaris.org
account holders would probably be too large, but perhaps the
concatenation of all addresses subscribed to at least one
opensolaris.org mailing list would be workable?
At some point, there may be an option to hook the list subs to either
auth or a database, but given our current priorities, it's probably
not forthcoming for a while.
e.
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