Re: [Mailman-Users] Restrict archives to Administrator

2019-04-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Dale writes: > We had a customer ask for their lists to have this option. Their > lists are used with some kind of automated entry/exit logging > processes. Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users writes: > Ack. It's a narrow need, but there are reasons. Not every list is for raw > public

Re: [Mailman-Users] [SPAM?] Mapping -owners alias to a separate list

2019-04-18 Thread Richard Damon
> On Apr 18, 2019, at 6:41 PM, Dennis Carr > wrote: > > Hey, guys. > ... > So to this end, my thought is to route that mail over to a separate > -admins list instead of 'mailman list admins'. The expected side > effect is that this will wind up in the -admins list "not-subscribed" > trap.

[Mailman-Users] Mapping -owners alias to a separate list

2019-04-18 Thread Dennis Carr
Hey, guys. I have a multi-admin list which has a number of administrators that is greater than one who all are volunteer admins. The side effect is that the -owners alias tends to get spammed - and in some cases, it can get spammed quite profusely. (Coming to mind are spams from fqdn qq.com -

[Mailman-Users] Disallow posting and alert members about replacement list

2019-04-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 4/18/19 10:05 AM, Andy Cravens wrote: > Using mailman 2.1.26. I have a list that is going to be retired and I need > to stop people from posting to the old list. However, I don’t want to delete > the list quite yet. Also, I need to auto-reply to any attempted posters that > the list is

[Mailman-Users] Disallow posting and alert members about replacement list

2019-04-18 Thread Andy Cravens
Using mailman 2.1.26. I have a list that is going to be retired and I need to stop people from posting to the old list. However, I don’t want to delete the list quite yet. Also, I need to auto-reply to any attempted posters that the list is being replaced with a new list. I have a plan but

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restrict archives to Administrator

2019-04-18 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 17:23 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark Dale writes: > > > I've posted some notes on restricting a list's archive to Administrators > > only. They may be of use to some folks. > > Could you say something about the use case? If there's a common > enough reason for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restrict archives to Administrator

2019-04-18 Thread Mark Dale
> Mark Dale writes: > > I've posted some notes on restricting a list's archive to Administrators > > only. They may be of use to some folks. From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp] > Again, I'm not saying these are bad ideas, just that I want more >

[Mailman-Users] Restrict archives to Administrator

2019-04-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Dale writes: > I've posted some notes on restricting a list's archive to Administrators > only. They may be of use to some folks. Could you say something about the use case? If there's a common enough reason for doing this, we (the committers) should think about adding such features to