Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-15 Thread Jon Carnes
The only big piece you seem to be missing is that each install has a separate owner. When you run the ./configure command you will include a switch pointing the "owner" of this particular install, and also to the home directory for the install. The owner for site1 will be something like user m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-15 Thread mailman
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Mark Goodge wrote: > > > > One thing that makes all this more awkward to deal with is the > > > > number of non-member (spam) posts that end up in the admin > > > > queues waiting to be discarded. > > > >Another approach is to stop spam where it should be stopped: before > >o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:47:39 +0100 Mark Goodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A pre-list spam filter will deal with some of it, but not all of it. That's very close to untrue. Note: TMDA can read mailman list configurations, and membership rosters in particular, and can filter on that basis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-15 Thread Mark Goodge
At 17:40 14/10/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 14 Oct 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > > > > > > One thing that makes all this more awkward to deal with is the > > > number of non-member (spam) posts that end up in the admin queues > > > waiting to be discarded. As I only ever want to discard th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-14 Thread mailman
On 14 Oct 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > As someone else mentioned, the Beta has this feature. > > Also, if you have sysadmin rights to the server running Mailman, > then you can setup one of the work-arounds. There are a couple of > work-arounds that allow you to discard the messages silently. > > Ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-14 Thread Jon Carnes
As someone else mentioned, the Beta has this feature. Also, if you have sysadmin rights to the server running Mailman, then you can setup one of the work-arounds. There are a couple of work-arounds that allow you to discard the messages silently. Check out FAQ article 1.12 and article 4.15 Good

Re: [Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-14 Thread John Wards
Up grade to the Beta version it has that feature John On Monday 14 Oct 2002 10:12 am, Mark Goodge wrote: > Hi, > > I run several mailing lists, all of which have posting restricted to > members only, some of which require approval for subscriptions and one of > which is moderated (requires posts

[Mailman-Users] Silently discarding non-member posts

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Goodge
Hi, I run several mailing lists, all of which have posting restricted to members only, some of which require approval for subscriptions and one of which is moderated (requires posts to be approved). This means there are quite a lot of administrative requests to be dealt with every day. One th