-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "baw" == Barry Warsaw >>>>> "Re: [Mailman-Developers] script" >>>>> 05 Sep 2003 08:08:41 -0400
baw> Take a look in cvs. There's a script called bin/discard baw> which takes a list of file names and does proper discards on baw> all those files. I'll be testing it on mail.python.org when baw> 1) I dig out from the mail hell we've been in for the last baw> few days, and 2) SF's CVS stops sucking <wink>. I hope this is something where the choice of what to discard rests with the individual list owner/moderator. Until now, with Mailman, content discrimination has been solely up to the individual list owner and his minions. IMHO it is good to make it easy for the individual list owners to do their job, but anything that requires content decisions to be made across all lists on a Mailman will be inappropriate for at least some, and probably many, mailing list operators. Consider a Mailman that carries many diverse lists including some that, for example, are directly involved with Nigerian affairs and Nigerian folk. Also, depending who operates Mailman and under what auspices and under what jurisdiction, an operator that exercises some discrimination based upon content may viewed as being responsible for content in general. For the sake of those operators who cannot take such responsibility, please continue to make any facilities for discriminating based upon content be tailored to the needs of individual lists and by the individual list owners. Elsewhere recently there has been mention of Baysen spam filters or the like for Mailman. Again, to be generally useful, it would, IMHO, be necessary to allow these features to be tailored to the needs of individual lists and to continue to plaice all responsibility firmly with the individual list owner where that is the policy of the Mailman operator. jam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/WK/oUEvv1b/iXy8RAuNFAKCHAsjxKoi8KjvfVd4TQTyoYcNH9ACbBB5M 7n6h6vlje0h83mvozPghpPU= =NUsK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers