On 03:32 PM 3/30/01, J C Lawrence wrote:
- Is [content filtering on the headers or body, to block messages that are in reply to an entire digest] possible with mailman?
Yes, within the minor limitations of regular expressions.
So, in other words, it would be trivially easy for someone using mailman to configure their list to reject a post that said:
Mailman-Users digest, Vol
in the subject (a header), but not so easy to reject a post that said:
Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to
in the body.
<rant> I'm just not sure. I mean, if it's that easy, why hasn't THIS LIST BEEN CONFIGURED TO DO JUST THAT????? </rant>
How do I know you aren't misleading me? If it's that easy, certainly this list would have been properly configured. I mean, letting a totally useless subject line stand in a post to be redistributed to the list is really letting your list membership down. IMHO, ever responsible list administrator MUST put in filters to ensure that posts that are submitted to their subscribers follow list rules, when filtering for such rules is an easy thing to do. A subject like "Subject: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1115 - 16 msgs" is clearly a violation of RFC 1855, if not also a violation of the list's specific rules.
It really should be an automatic feature of the mailing list software, whenever you add a digest. List owners shouldn't have to do anything to trigger this, and the default behavior should be to bounce the non-compliant post back to the author with an explanation about why it's being automatically rejected (just as bounced mail gets sent back with a reason when the MTA can't deliver it).
Bingo, no more problems with digest users forgetting their manners and sending entire digests back to the list, all using the useless (to the other list members) digest subject line.
On 04:53 AM 3/31/01, lcarter1@cwctv.net wrote:
no
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:25:05 -0500 mailman-users-request@python.org wrote: From: mailman-users-request@python.org Subject: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1115 - 16 msgs Reply-to: mailman-users@python.org X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.3 (101270) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=63.102.49.29.506.16634.986041441.093.10336 To: mailman-users@python.org Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:25:05 -0500 Return-Path: mailman-users-admin@python.org
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