[Mailman-Users] misfeature/bug in MM 2.1

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Y'all,

   In my study of my mailing lists today (both new in MM 2.1,
and upgraded from 2.0.13), I made the sad discovery that

generic_nonmember_action = 0

for **all** of my lists.  The "bend over and take spam"
setting.  I noticed that DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION is
set to one in Mailman/Defaults.py, but I don't think this setting
works properly.  If it did work properly, I would argue that
the default should be 2 (reject), not 1 (hold for administrator).
Why should the list administrator be bothered with having to
tend admin requests from spammers and other idiots?

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Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
Senior UNIX Sysadmin and Email Guru
Information Technology Services
Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,
Waterville ME, 04901-8842
phone: 207-872-3659 (fax = 3076)
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