Lindsay Haisley writes:
For both non subscribers and for moderated subscribers to a Mailman list you can set the list behavior to "discard" for unwanted posts. The posts go straight to the cosmic bit bucket, no further questions asked :-)
Not in whatever version of mailman Sourceforge uses. There's no such option there.
Sourceforge's documentation makes a note of this issue and provides a pointer to someone else's Perl script that does essentially the same thing that my hand-baked perl script does.
Thus spake Sam Varshavchik on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:31:01PM CSTBen Kennedy writes:
>On 21 12 2004 at 7:04 pm -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>>Sourceforge uses mailman. I find it rather annoying. It keeps pestering >>me, every day, with this thing or that thing.
>
>I run a couple of lists and don't have such a problem.
>
>>Instead of rejecting messages from non-subscribers out of hand, or >>rejecting messages for other similar reasons, it queues it up, and bugs >>me to manually remove the message from the queue.
>
>You can configure automatic behaviour for these things if you don't want
>to be pestered.
I find nothing in Sourceforge's mailman interface to tell it to STOP it from pestering me to manually cancel messages mailman intercepted and did not distribute to the list: messages from nonsubscribers, suspected spam, huge messages, and so on.
>>It's gotten to the point where I actually wrote a Perl script to handle >>mailman's obnoxiousness automatically.
>
>Care to share? I am curious about what things it deals with. It may be
>of interest to the rest of us for similar reasons.
It runs the 'admindb' command, parses the HTML output to get the list of message numbers in the admin queue, then sends a POST nuking everything.
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