Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only -setting in Mailman 2.1.5

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ari Moisio wrote: > > I have several mailing lists with memebers sometimes mailing from some >other address they are subscribed. I have manually accepted each message >but would like to permanently enable these senders addresses. However i >could not find any setting to allow postings from no

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only -setting in Mailman 2.1.5

2006-10-13 Thread Ari Moisio
Hi! I have searched all list configuration but cannnot find how to disable member_posting_only-feature with web interface. I have several mailing lists with memebers sometimes mailing from some other address they are subscribed. I have manually accepted each message but would like to perm

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Brad" == Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brad> Programmers tend to think that everyone else in the Brad> world is a programmer, and then are amazed when others are Brad> not capable of doing the things that they find so easy. I only said it's a shame that this te

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:32 AM +0900 2005-04-21, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: It's a shame that we don't take more advantage of the flexibility that is offered by this feature. It is _really_ easy to experiment with Mailman 2.1 if you know a little Python. If you know a little Python. If you can afford

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Brad" == Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brad> At 9:06 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: >> what is not clear in the statement members_postings_only='yes'? >> 'yes' or 'only'? i guess i'm hanging on "only". wouldn't you? Brad> The problem is that Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:06 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: what is not clear in the statement members_postings_only='yes'? 'yes' or 'only'? i guess i'm hanging on "only". wouldn't you? The problem is that Mailman checks for things such as attachment size, etc... to try to determine whether or not the m

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Sean
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400 (EDT) > From: "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only > To: "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: mailman-users@python.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "kalin" == kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kalin> my point was/is that the 'members_posting_only' is supposed kalin> to be for members ONLY but it's not... As I understand the word "post" it implies delivery to the list members. So this option is doing what it says: prev

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Most of those kinds of messages, on my lists, and I have over 60, are > spam. You can set Mailman to discard all "held" messages, so you won't > ever see them. They will also discard member posts from different > addresses, etc., but this may be a small price to pay for not having to go > thro

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> > jc ok. in my first post i mentioned that this is mailman version 2.0.13. those options don't exist there... but thanks... > > -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Phillips
On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:42 PM, JC Dill wrote: I think you are missing the big picture. There are many different ways that lists can be configured. The "only" term applies to the *automatic* handling by mailman, not to the choices made by the list owners and admins. Mailman automatically posts

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread JC Dill
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] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> 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!) ok. but there are about 60-70% mess

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Yes, this means that I (or a moderator) needs to read through the > held queue and rescue any stray messages, but it only takes a few > minutes a day. > > I think holding questionable messages is the best default because it > allows the list-owner to remedy the situation. If the default was to

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Heather Madrone
At 6:17 PM -0400 4/19/05, kalin mintchev wrote: >thanks Dan. i disagree thought. i don't see how you'd recognize a member >of the list except by the email address. how'd you possibly know that the >email address that's in the From header on the message you are about to >approve belongs to one of th

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> > On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:42 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: >> right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i >> mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why >> is mailman holding messages for approval that's not coming from members at >> all? > > I

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:46 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is mailman holding messages for approval that's not co

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
hi... mailman version 2.0.13 Restrict posting privilege to list members? - yes. i get a lot of messages to go to the Administrative requests page to aprove messages that are from people who are NOT on the list at all. what's up with that? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only issue under 2.0.6

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Barrett
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 02:03 am, Cole wrote: Until very recently I was running Lyris which I was fairly happy with. However edicts came down from above and I am now trying to fine tune the configuration of Mailman 2.0.6 which I inherited from someone else. In short I am very new to

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only issue under 2.0.6

2003-10-24 Thread Cole
Until very recently I was running Lyris which I was fairly happy with. However edicts came down from above and I am now trying to fine tune the configuration of Mailman 2.0.6 which I inherited from someone else. In short I am very new to Mailman. I have set the member_posting_only to "yes" which

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2003-10-24 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Richard Barrett wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:34 pm, Andrew Watson wrote: > > > My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7 > > Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to: > > > > Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) - > > yes

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Barrett
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:34 pm, Andrew Watson wrote: My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7 Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to: Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) - yes Since the change, i have noticed no difference. I must still manually

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2003-10-24 Thread Andrew Watson
My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7 Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to: Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) - yes Since the change, i have noticed no difference. I must still manually discard every spam posting. Is this option non-functional in 2.0.7?

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mailAddresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Peter Hutnick: > Does non-subscriber mail bounce? I'd like to be able to configure > this. I would actually like to have non-subscriber mail held for > approval. Call me the human spam filter! Non-subscriber mail is held for approval, just like moderated lists. +gg -- [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Hutnick
> According to Peter Hutnick: >> This ties in nicely with a question that I asked earlier. >> >> Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not >> need approval, but non-subscribers do? > > Isn't that the option "Restrict posting privilege to list > members? (member_posting_only

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Peter Hutnick: > This ties in nicely with a question that I asked earlier. > > Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not need > approval, but non-subscribers do? Isn't that the option "Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only)" on "priva