[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: suggested improvement for Mailman's bounce processing

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 11, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 4:35 PM -0400 2006-08-11, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>>  Although I have not implemented it yet, Mailman 2.2 will definitely
>>  get auto-moderation.  IOW, should a non-member send a message to a
>>  mailing list, and if that mailing list is so configured, Mailman  
>> will
>>  hold the message and send a message to the From address asking for
>>  verification of the post.  I'm assuming this is what you mean by
>>  "auto-moderation".
>
> I'm confused.  Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're talking about,
> Mailman 2.1.x already does this today.  You try to post to a list
> that is restricted to subscribers only, and then your message may be
> rejected, or you may get a message saying that the post is being held
> for moderation, or it may get silently thrown away, etc....  It all
> depends on how the listowner has configured things, but to this
> level, this kind of thing works today.

Today, held messages still have to be approved by the moderator.   
What I propose is to allow posters to self-moderate, simply by  
verifying that their address is real.  This probably means a  
clickable link and (maybe) a header cookie for replying.  Think  
Gmane's auto-moderation approach.

- -Barry

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