[Mailman-Users] Discard non-member postings automatically?

[Cal Evans]

Turn off Moderator Must Approve, Turn On members Only?

Cal
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* Cal Evans
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phydeaux" <reb at taco.com>
To: "Amanda" <arandall at auntminnie.com>; "J B Bell" <cipher at eschatek.com>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Discard non-member postings automatically?


> At 08:55 AM 6/21/2001 -0700, Amanda wrote:
> >Go to your admin page and set it to allow posting from members only. :-)
> >
> >J B Bell wrote:
> >
> > > I recently converted a list to Mailman.  Unfortunately, it's a huge
spam
> > > target, and I get many messages a day from non-members.  Slogging
through
> > > and discarding them all is very annoying.  Is there any way to set a
policy
> > > of discarding non-member postings outright?
>
> I'm sorry -- that's not what he wants.  When you allow posting from
members
> only, posts that do not meet the test are queued for the administrator.
The
> requested feature (I do not believe this is currently available -- I'd
like it
> too) is to auto-reject this kind of message, perhaps with a customizable
> canned response, so the administrator does not have to deal with it.
>
> reb
>
>
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