On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 22:25, texas critter wrote: > On Friday, April 02, 2004 8:57 PM, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: > > > Just a thought - how about your MTA or Spam filter? The same > > way you would setup an alias in you MTA - send anything from that > > address to never-neverland. > > No, as I said, I do NOT want to block ALL mail from these email addresses, > it isn't spam. I just want to block them joining lists. > > They are not spammers, they haven't posted anything objectionable, they're > just clueless AOLers who have reported messages from lists they voluntarily > signed up for as spam so I need to block them from receiving any list mail > from my server. > > But I do want them to be able to send private email to me and everyone else > I host, they may be friends with people I host and I have no problem with > them emailing them. And especially if they try to join a list and find > they can't, then they can email me or the listowners and we can explain why > they're banned and why they shouldn't indiscrimately hit that "spam" > button. > > So blackholing or rejecting their mail thru my MTA or spam filter doesn't > work, I only want to affect their ability to join lists on my server. > > hth, > texas critter > You could script this fairly easily: - build a text file with one email per line, - parse through the file with a for loop to look up each address - use the "list_members" command to find if an address is subscribed - unsubscribe them to the list - run the script daily or hourly.
You could also build this into the add_user functionality of the web and email cgi's; have them check the text file for a negative hit before allowing the user to be added. It would take all of about three lines of code in each program. Open Source is the best! Good Luck - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
