On 6/12/20 11:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > One mailing list I run has recently been plagued with a very heated, long, > inappropriate, and off-topic discussion. The people in charge of the mailing > list > have asked me to temporarily turn it off [and I have]. Two questions: > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of removing the > alias > that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a "sender > filter" > that rejected everyone or something like that. As mentioned emergency moderation seems the best option. You DON'T get the normal message about a message being held for moderation, but they do show in the moderation queue where you can discard/reject/allow the messages, and there is an option to just discard everything not otherwise selected for processing. > > 2) is there a way to block a *single* topic.. I know that can be defeated > but it'll > stop the particular thread at least for while while the rest of the list can > go on. You can add certain words from the subject to a filter, and set that filter to hold/reject/or discard. A lot depends on how consistent the subject lines of the topic are and if there are distinct words/phrases that you can pattern match. One issue with this is people realize what words are being filtered for, they may change the subject to avoid the words. on the list I manage, I consider this grounds to be put on individual moderation. > > Thanks! /bernie\ > Bernie Cosell > ber...@fantasyfarm.com > -- Too many people; too few sheep -- >
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