Hi All
Would it be feasible to create a feature that would automate a search for a pre-agreed phrase set by list owner typed on each individual email posted to a list?
An email would then begin with the pre-agreed phrase, eg: "We all love red wine", which Mailman would have been programmed to recognise. A "reply to" post would be exempt from such. Anyone initiating a new string and forgetting to include the key-phrase would receive an auto-response notification to resend including key-phrase. This would in most cases replace the "your posting is being held for approval", as most lists have open posting for their members.
It would be a matter of days before everybody got used to including the key-phrase in their postings - to make life easier, members can even include it in their signature.
Rui
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On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Rui Correia wrote:
Would it be feasible to create a feature that would automate a search for a pre-agreed phrase set by list owner typed on each individual email posted to a list?
How does the email authentication thing work right now? I may be mis-remembering, but I think you can stick a header in to make your messages automatically authorized. If this sort of thing is already built in, extending it to search more than the one header shouldn't be impossible.
But it's entirely possible that this functionality doesn't exist. I'm really fuzzy on how the email admin interface works, and I may be thinking of another system I used.
Terri
At 3:43 PM -0500 2005-03-04, Terri Oda quoted Rui Correia:
Would it be feasible to create a feature that would automate a search for a pre-agreed phrase set by list owner typed on each individual email posted to a list?
How does the email authentication thing work right now? I may be mis-remembering, but I think you can stick a header in to make your messages automatically authorized. If this sort of thing is already built in, extending it to search more than the one header shouldn't be impossible.
You can put on an "Approved:" header. They're trivially easy to fake.-- Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
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