Thanks for the advice Richard. Does turning on the Administrative filter force Mailman to check for administrative commands in the subject line only? I get the sense that some of the list members trying to get off of the list simply enter a phrase such as "Yes, unsubscribe me from the list too!". I am sure that this comes from the body of the message, rather than the subject line.
I think we have some people that just can't follow directions. Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On 18 Feb 2004, at 20:18, John Grunder wrote: > >> Has anyone seen a situation in Mailmain 2.1 where administrative >> requests >> (subscribe, unsubscribe) might be forwarded back to the unmoderated >> list, >> and thereby to the general list members? >> >> Is there a setting which could make this happen? > >The "(Administrivia filter) Check postings and ...?", the administrivia >option, on the General Options web admin GUI page for a list will >affect detection of administrative messages sent to a list's primary >mail alias. If turned off this will prevent the administrivia filter >operating and ensure that, for instance, subscribe and unsubscribe >requests are not diverted from the list to the list admin. > >The default for this list attribute is controlled on list creation by >the value of the DEFAULT_ADMINISTRIVIA configuration variable in the >$prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py > >> >> We have a list which was converted over from Majordomo last month to >> Mailman and now all of the members are being flooded with messages from >> the list requesting to unsubscribe. Since this overloads other >> member's >> mailboxes, they too are asking to unsubscribe, and the wave builds. We >> need to stop this somehow. > >Why not send a message to the list with a mailto link to the >listname-unsubscribe mail alias and text reminding people to use that >alias to unsubscribe. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
