Re: [Mailman-Developers] New RFC on using DKIM with MLMs

2011-10-24 Thread Richard Damon
On 10/24/11 10:31 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: Ian Eiloart [mailto:i...@sussex.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 7:24 AM To: Murray S. Kucherawy Cc: mailman-developers@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] New RFC on using DKIM with MLMs Isn't hide

Re: [Mailman-Developers] New RFC on using DKIM with MLMs

2011-10-25 Thread Richard Damon
On 10/25/11 6:00 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:step...@xemacs.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:50 AM To: Murray S. Kucherawy Cc: mailman-developers@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] New RFC on using DKIM with MLMs I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] New RFC on using DKIM with MLMs

2011-10-28 Thread Richard Damon
safe encoding if needed for transport. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http

Re: [Mailman-Developers] OpenPGP Integration on GSoC

2013-04-11 Thread Richard Damon
with the recipients public-key, so only this last piece needs to be done per recipient. You probably need to send copies individually, or every message will have information about who is subscribed to the list. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project idea: OpenPGP integration

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Damon
that the message came from someone on the list. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Where does Mailman keep information of who reply to a post?

2013-08-03 Thread Richard Damon
the discussion (for the threaded view), this is done by message headers in the email put in by the replying email program, which indicate the message-id (a unique identifier added to all emails by email systems) of the message it is a reply to. -- Richard Damon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Thinking about list footers

2014-06-04 Thread Richard Damon
ESPs are probably ready to take MUA improvement seriously. (Starting with protecting addressbooks, of course, but HCI stuff too I hope.) Where is Dave Hayes when we so desperately need his AI newsreader? Steve -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Thinking about list footers

2014-06-05 Thread Richard Damon
On 6/4/14, 11:39 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Richard Damon writes: There are some domains (like banks but NOT Yahoo and AOL) whose email is important to verify identity of sender, who should have some form of certificate that shows they have been verified by a trusted 3rd party

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Changing the default_moderation_action has no effect on existing members

2014-11-25 Thread Richard Damon
setting if the member's value is None. How about that ? Other suggestions? Aurélien The only way I could see that would be to make the flag 3 valued: They are moderated They are not moderated They are in the default state of moderation, see the lists default value. -- Richard Damon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Your confirmation is required to leave the Mailman-Developers mailing list

2015-01-13 Thread Richard Damon
Why would it? There isn't anything special about the link that would tell mailman to do so. Ideally, people would have signature separators that would cause the footer to be trimmed, but that isn't mailman's job. (like Mark's did for me). On 1/13/15 10:06 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: Should

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for Auto moderation system

2015-03-08 Thread Richard Damon
On 3/8/15 5:03 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Richard Damon writes: This is why I say that having only per-thread limits isn't workable, as threads are too fragile. Systers-style dynamic lists may fix this problem. On most discussion lists subscription is open, so you'd end up

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Anatomy of list ids does not keep with that of urls causes some REST end points to return 404 always

2015-03-07 Thread Richard Damon
is the hex value of the character, this now makes % a problem char so it is sent as part of the URL as %25) -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for Auto moderation system

2015-03-07 Thread Richard Damon
there is a much stronger definition of Thread and people may be much less inclined to break thread to bypass limits. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads

2015-03-11 Thread Richard Damon
throttling system (or both). This is why I made the comment that per thread limits really need to be combined with some form of over-all limit or new-thread limit to minimize the ability to game the system. -- Richard Damon -- Richard Damon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads

2015-03-11 Thread Richard Damon
? -- Richard Damon Most definitely, just as I hope the per thread limits are something the list-admin can control, as again, that is something very much list dependent. And again, those limits would be time rate based, not an absolute value. -- Richard Damon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads

2015-03-11 Thread Richard Damon
). The one address that I wouldn't want throttled would be my official address as list-admin, but it wouldn't have enough posts on it to trigger the limits anyway. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for Auto moderation system

2015-03-08 Thread Richard Damon
affect the discussion going on as some threads are very long and also important and can't be shortened. Regards Aanand Yes, I understand that the limit isn't a limit on absolute number of posts, but a rate-limit on posting. -- Richard Damon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for full anonymization of a mailing list

2015-03-08 Thread Richard Damon
(your foo) probably should include the list name in a way that avoids clashed between multiple uses of the module on different lists, or other uses of the domain. It might be something like listname+random@listdomain or listname-random@listdomain -- Richard Damon

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Need more information about the GSoC idea 'GitLab/development tools integration'

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Damon
On 3/12/16 4:19 PM, Wasim Thabraze wrote: Hello everyone, The GSoC idea states 'a tool that will take a thread from a Mailman mailing list and..'. I just wanted to know what are the different ways to extract a thread from a mailing list. I'm actually trying to understand the idea from a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Correcting the display name in the recipient address

2016-03-26 Thread Richard Damon
erated by the list, thus every message will have the same sort of Message-ID, removing its ability to trace back (somewhat) to the poster. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Imminent release of a Mailman security fix.

2016-08-22 Thread Richard Damon
apply the update before that happens. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Encrypted lists predictable difficulties and implementation needs

2017-03-19 Thread Richard Damon
On 3/18/17 4:37 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:30:36PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: ... It *might* be. The problem is that the list owner and other list members have no way to know. From their point of view, there is no way to know that whether the latest list member --

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Confusing definition of "subscribers"

2019-03-05 Thread Richard Damon
t to contact the 'team', and the list subscribers are the support team to handle the messages. This is a different model than discussion lists like this, but is one that is supported by Mailman. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailma

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Removing of bounce address from client.users?

2019-03-15 Thread Richard Damon
me back (perhaps the user goes on vacation and mail box fills). Suspending and then unsubscribing makes a lot of sense. Totally forgetting about the address doesn't. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.or

[Mailman-Developers] Re: [SPAM?] Re: Creating new Variables in the Database

2019-05-17 Thread Richard Damon
the old page), so you are dealing with a 'race' condition, and may create a bigger delay in order to try and handle the issue. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Bounce processing should be done to only USER entities?

2019-06-14 Thread Richard Damon
it to accumulate enough of a score to disable the address, while a very busy list likely wants a very short period so very occasional bounce backs (like false positive spam rejects) don't get a chance to accumulate. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Develope

[Mailman-Developers] Re: [SPAM?] Re: Bounce processing should be done to only USER entities?

2019-06-16 Thread Richard Damon
hat in the rules, it is hard to see how to deal with both lists with a common counter. And keeping track of success can be hard, as some systems will accept the message, and later return the rejection message (this does have back-scatter issues, but it is done), and the delay can be significant

[Mailman-Developers] Re: [SPAM?] Re: Bounce processing should be done to only USER entities?

2019-06-19 Thread Richard Damon
use of lists 2 occasional spam false alarms, which required the elevated threshold (or even just wanting to give a few days to clear a mailbox full error) the user gets unsubscribed from list1 to rapidly. If list1 raises its threshold to handle that, a subsc

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Bounce processing should be done to only USER entities?

2019-06-20 Thread Richard Damon
n your face, you go to subscribe to a list and find you already have an 'user account' on that machine. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Question on Subscription Moderation

2020-04-07 Thread Richard Damon
uest point, and keeps addresses that match that list from entering a subscription. Once they get past that point, the ban list isn't checked again, so yes, you can have subscription requests and subscriptions from a banned email address, those addresses just c

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Mass subscriptions as a DoS attack

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Damon
Discussion based lists tend to require subscription to post, but many support lists don't. Though I suppose the attacker would need to get subscribed to the support list to act on the confirmation message, which makes that path harder and less likely. One solution would be to add a 'spam' filter

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-02-01 Thread Richard Damon
On 2/1/21 3:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Richard Damon writes: > > > It is one of the 'Markdown' codes for a horizontal rule > > But 72 of them? Don't most people use about 5? But if they are using it AS the horizontal rule in a plain text document, it could e

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-01-30 Thread Richard Damon
it will automatically remove the list footer from a reply to the list. -- Richard Damon ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/ma

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-01-30 Thread Richard Damon
On 1/30/21 8:23 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 06:19:41AM -0500, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 1/30/21 3:28 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: >>> Sender signature != ML footer. >>> >>> So, as Stephen says, the separators used to indicate those two >

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-01-30 Thread Richard Damon
On 1/30/21 9:40 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:22:43AM -0500, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 1/30/21 8:23 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: >>> [Unless] signatures and footers use distinct separators, it would not >>> be practical for MUA developers to

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Footer settings question: how common is dash-dash-space?

2021-01-31 Thread Richard Damon
On 1/31/21 9:20 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Richard Damon writes: > > On 1/30/21 9:40 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > > All I am advocating is that: > > > > 2. Footer separators should be distinguishable from likely body > > > text, and should n