On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:00, Madsen Wikholm wrote: > I'm not really for using the challenge/response system for personal mail since > I get much mail from unknown senders. But for a list that would normally be > open it would cut down on the spam. I used to have my lists open but due to > spam I've closed them which generates a lot of approval messages :-(
You and me both. Since I feel your pain, I'll probably end up doing something about this in 2.1.3 (e.g. limit the number of approvals sent to the admins per day). > One could argue that you could as well subscribe to the list if you want to > send a mail to it but then you get all the rest of the mail that you might not > be interested in. Another thing I'd like to do is to make it an option to free all the held messages of someone who posted before they were a member, and then became a member, without explicit admin approval. > In additon to the full subscription option there could perhaps be a thread > subscription which would subscribe the sender to only receive mails from the > thread started by him/her. This might become somewhat heavy though. It's a great idea that's been bantied about for years (e.g. Roundup's nosy lists). But that would have to be a feature for a 2.2 release. > > We'd put a governor on the confirmation offerings so forged virus bombs > > wouldn't inundate the innocent. > > Not that I need to know but what do you mean with governor? Ah, a regulator. I.e. something that stops Mailman from sending too many confirmation messages during a certain period of time. There are actually already such things in the autoresponder, but more of the system needs to be put on it. -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers