[Mailman-Users] What do you think of this idea to keep external people from subscribing?

Jon Carnes jonc at haht.com
Wed Feb 6 23:55:20 CET 2002


Try it, it should work fine.  Your users will be stuck using the web, but
that's not so bad.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jessica Koeppel" <jessica at anticlockwise.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] What do you think of this idea to keep external
people from subscribing?


>
> I've got a bunch of lists which I want to have set so that anyone can
> subscribe themselves very easily.
>
> However - I want only people on my internal network to be able to do this.
>
> The web interface is accessible only internally, so that's easy.
>
> But listname-request at foo.com is still there - random outsiders could
> email that and get subscribed.
>
> Would I lose anything *important* if I simply removed the listname-request
> alias from my aliases, disabling that way of subscribing?
>
> --jessica
>
>
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