[Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

[Dragon]

Matt England sent the message below at 12:14 8/23/2006:
>At 8/23/2006 11:52 AM, Patrick Bogen wrote:
>
> >I think he meant: auto-moderate new users, and unmoderate them after
> >some amount of time has passed (e.g., after a day or after a week)
>
>Yes, that's correct.
>
>Can Mailman do the above (auto-moderate new users, and then automatically
>un-moderate them after a certain duration)?
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It can do the first part but not the second.

What you need is a script that will check the moderation setting, 
check the time since subscription, and reset the setting if the 
threshold is reached. You would then run that script as a cron job. I 
don't know if there is a way to find the time somebody subscribed, I 
don't think it is stored in the config.pck for the list but it may be 
in a log somewhere.

Dragon

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