Raj Mathur wrote: > >On Wednesday 15 Apr 2009, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: >> My sincere request to list moderators: Please put up some filters on >> the mailing list to get rid of such "invitations". >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM, pratipal singh >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >Unfortunately the sender is set to an address that is presumably >subscribed to this list. If the originating address were a standard >orkut/twitter/... kind of thing it would be possible to block it, but >how do you block a message from a subscriber? :) > you can set up some regex filters on the server-side--- that if "invitation" is included anywhere in the subject or body of the msg; then the server would send a mail to the sender--- asking him to click a link where he has to correctly answer a CAPTCHA challenge.
All messages that do not have the word "invitation" in them-- can just pass through unfiltered. Mailman (AFAIK) is written in python. Regards, Nalin _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
