[Mailman-Users] Auto-reject non-member messages?

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:47 AM -0800 2/23/07, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>  Discard is better than Reject unless you feel you might receive
>  non-member posts for which it is important to respond in some way,
>  i.e. some legitimate request from a non-member who would assume the
>  request was received in the absence of a negative reply.

Whereas I would turn that around and say that Reject is better than 
Discard, because it's generally better to notify legitimate senders 
that their post was rejected as opposed to simply throwing it away 
silently.

Of course, this method can lend itself to certain other types of 
abuses (e.g., Joe Jobs), although Mailman does work hard to try to 
mitigate those.

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