At 6:17 PM -0400 4/19/05, kalin mintchev wrote: >thanks Dan. i disagree thought. i don't see how you'd recognize a member >of the list except by the email address. how'd you possibly know that the >email address that's in the From header on the message you are about to >approve belongs to one of that list's members if it's not on the list? ok >- unless the list is for your family members or closest friends and your >know all their alternative email addresses.... in 2.0 you can not even >relate names to addresses.
I run a list with 800 subscribers, and it's often blindingly obvious when a message in the held queue is from a list-member's alternate email address. For one thing, the subject header often contains Re:[List] and tends to be on-topic. For another thing, the alternate email addresses are quite often very similar to the subscription address. When all else fails, I can look at the sign-off on the message to see who it is. Yes, this means that I (or a moderator) needs to read through the held queue and rescue any stray messages, but it only takes a few minutes a day. I think holding questionable messages is the best default because it allows the list-owner to remedy the situation. If the default was to discard, you might miss some gems. I know that a lot of folks out there are intimidated by Mailman, and so I try to make it easy for them. If they make a mistake, I go ahead and take care of things, if I can figure out what they were trying to do. -- Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com A rolling stone gathers no mass. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
