[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only -setting in Mailman 2.1.5

2006-10-13 Thread Ari Moisio
Hi! I have searched all list configuration but cannnot find how to disable member_posting_only-feature with web interface. I have several mailing lists with memebers sometimes mailing from some other address they are subscribed. I have manually accepted each message but would like to

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only -setting in Mailman 2.1.5

2006-10-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ari Moisio wrote: I have several mailing lists with memebers sometimes mailing from some other address they are subscribed. I have manually accepted each message but would like to permanently enable these senders addresses. However i could not find any setting to allow postings from

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad == Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad Programmers tend to think that everyone else in the Brad world is a programmer, and then are amazed when others are Brad not capable of doing the things that they find so easy. I only said it's a shame that this technique is

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:32 AM +0900 2005-04-21, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: It's a shame that we don't take more advantage of the flexibility that is offered by this feature. It is _really_ easy to experiment with Mailman 2.1 if you know a little Python. If you know a little Python. If you can afford

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
kalin == kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kalin my point was/is that the 'members_posting_only' is supposed kalin to be for members ONLY but it's not... As I understand the word post it implies delivery to the list members. So this option is doing what it says: preventing

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Sean
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400 (EDT) From: kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only To: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: mailman-users@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Those

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:06 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: what is not clear in the statement members_postings_only='yes'? 'yes' or 'only'? i guess i'm hanging on only. wouldn't you? The problem is that Mailman checks for things such as attachment size, etc... to try to determine whether or not the

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad == Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad At 9:06 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: what is not clear in the statement members_postings_only='yes'? 'yes' or 'only'? i guess i'm hanging on only. wouldn't you? Brad The problem is that Mailman checks for

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
hi... mailman version 2.0.13 Restrict posting privilege to list members? - yes. i get a lot of messages to go to the Administrative requests page to aprove messages that are from people who are NOT on the list at all. what's up with that? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is mailman holding messages for approval that's not

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:46 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:42 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is mailman holding messages for approval that's not coming from members at all? I would

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Heather Madrone
At 6:17 PM -0400 4/19/05, kalin mintchev wrote: thanks Dan. i disagree thought. i don't see how you'd recognize a member of the list except by the email address. how'd you possibly know that the email address that's in the From header on the message you are about to approve belongs to one of that

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
Yes, this means that I (or a moderator) needs to read through the held queue and rescue any stray messages, but it only takes a few minutes a day. I think holding questionable messages is the best default because it allows the list-owner to remedy the situation. If the default was to

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
Those messages aren't approved -- they're held. ok, Brad. thanks. sure. they are held. held for approval. they are not approved. true. are they from subscribed members? some. most are not. but the setting says members_postings_only = 'yes' (ONLY!) ok. but there are about 60-70%

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread JC Dill
kalin mintchev wrote: Those messages aren't approved -- they're held. ok, Brad. thanks. sure. they are held. held for approval. they are not approved. true. are they from subscribed members? some. most are not. but the setting says members_postings_only = 'yes' (ONLY!) That is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Phillips
On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:42 PM, JC Dill wrote: I think you are missing the big picture. There are many different ways that lists can be configured. The only term applies to the *automatic* handling by mailman, not to the choices made by the list owners and admins. Mailman automatically posts

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
jc ok. in my first post i mentioned that this is mailman version 2.0.13. those options don't exist there... but thanks... -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
Most of those kinds of messages, on my lists, and I have over 60, are spam. You can set Mailman to discard all held messages, so you won't ever see them. They will also discard member posts from different addresses, etc., but this may be a small price to pay for not having to go through

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2003-10-24 Thread Andrew Watson
My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7 Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to: Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) - yes Since the change, i have noticed no difference. I must still manually discard every spam posting. Is this option non-functional in

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Barrett
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:34 pm, Andrew Watson wrote: My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7 Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to: Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) - yes Since the change, i have noticed no difference. I must still manually

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2003-10-24 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Richard Barrett wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 09:34 pm, Andrew Watson wrote: My ISP is running mailman 2.0.7 Due to spam, I recently changed my list options to: Restrict posting privilege to list members? ( member_posting_only ) - yes Since

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only issue under 2.0.6

2003-10-24 Thread Cole
Until very recently I was running Lyris which I was fairly happy with. However edicts came down from above and I am now trying to fine tune the configuration of Mailman 2.0.6 which I inherited from someone else. In short I am very new to Mailman. I have set the member_posting_only to yes which

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only issue under 2.0.6

2003-10-24 Thread Richard Barrett
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 02:03 am, Cole wrote: Until very recently I was running Lyris which I was fairly happy with. However edicts came down from above and I am now trying to fine tune the configuration of Mailman 2.0.6 which I inherited from someone else. In short I am very new to

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Peter Hutnick: This ties in nicely with a question that I asked earlier. Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not need approval, but non-subscribers do? Isn't that the option "Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only)" on "privacy"

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mailAddresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Peter Hutnick: Does non-subscriber mail bounce? I'd like to be able to configure this. I would actually like to have non-subscriber mail held for approval. Call me the human spam filter! Non-subscriber mail is held for approval, just like moderated lists. +gg -- [EMAIL