[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] admin requests on the lists

[Scott]

On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 03:51:29PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
| On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Scott wrote:
| 
| > is the administrivia check turned on?
| 
| Yes.
| 
| > 
| > if so, then please forward examples of administrivia that found their
| > way through to  mailman-developers, we'll make it better.
| 
| Here is a very simple example:
| 
| Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:26:27 -0100 (GMT)
| From: <doesnt really matter>
| Reply-To: linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
| To: linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
| Subject: [lk] (no subject)
| 
| subscribe
| 
| 
| _______________________________________________________
| linux-kezdo lista   -   linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
| http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kezdo

This message should have been caught by the administrivia filter. It
looks at the message before the message footer and subsject are
altered and so, to quote your message like that:

"""\
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:26:27 -0100 (GMT)
From: <doesnt really matter>
Reply-To: linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
To: linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
 
subscribe


"""

and to run the administrivia check on it by hand:
>>> from Mailman.Message import IncomingMessage
>>> from Mailman.Utils import IsAdministrivia
>>> txt = """Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:26:27 -0100 (GMT)
... From: <doesnt really matter>
... Reply-To: linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
... To: linux-kezdo@mlf.linux.rulez.org
...
... subscribe
...
... """
>>> msg = IncomingMessage(txt)
>>> IsAdministrivia(msg)
1
>>>


Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the problem (in this
case) is not in the accuracy of the administrivia check, but in the
list config. 

what happens if you run 

echo subscribe | mail <somelistwithadminsitriviaturned on>

???

On every installation i've seen, it flags the request as administrivia
and sends it to the list admin for approval.

scott