Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 10/10/2016 05:44 PM, Adam Morris wrote: > > > > Not sure if I'm using the correct terminology. > > > You are. > > > > People send messages to a list I run as well as other lists that I have > > nothing to do with. > > > > > > When people reply to the message sent to other lists the replies go to > > my list as well as the list they replied to. > > > If the person replying does a reply-all and doesn't remove the lists of > which she is not a member from the recipients. > > > > Is there a way to stop this apart from asking people to only send the > > message to one list at a time? > > > Attempting to train your list members is futile[1]. What you can do is > set Privacy options... -> Recipient filters -> max_num_recipients to 2. > This will cause any post with 2 or more direct (To: and Cc:) recipients > to be held and then you can reject those posts. Whether this is more or > less burdensome than rejecting the non-member replies from the > cross-posted lists is something only you can decide. > > Also this creates another problem. If, as we strongly recommend, your > list doesn't munge Reply-To:, and your user's MUAs don't offer a > reply-list option, they probably want to reply-all to list posts which > will cause their replies to be held too. > > Bottom line: I feel your pain, but I don't have a satisfactory solution. > > [1] My experience with lists whose members are not email wonks is that > attempts to alter member's behavior only result in their thinking you're > a jerk and don't modify their behavior.
max_num_recipients is an an interesting option (not in majordomo-1.94.5_8 I used before Mailman) Re. [1] - Yes !! I use: Privacy Options > Sender Filters > generic_nonmember_action: Discard Draconian, but stops spammers & wasters, help avoids need for list moderators, & saves list owner time - some list members can be truly awful. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printable. http://berklix.eu/brexit/#stolen_votes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org