Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mark> What do you consider a subscribe request? If you mean a > Mark> message sent to the list posting address > Mark> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with a subject or message body saying > Mark> "please subscribe me" or something like that, then you can't > Mark> do what you want because these messages will be discarded > Mark> like any other non-member post. > >This is probably true, but it doesn't need to be. Normally the lists >filter administrivia. So if you put the administrivia filter HOLD >before the non-member filter DISCARD, Daevid should win here, too.
All that needs to be done to do administrivia filtering before non-member reject/discard is to rearrange the GLOBAL_PIPELINE (in mm_cfg.py) to put 'hold' before 'moderate', or create a 'pipeline' attribute for the list which is like GLOBAL_PIPELINE but with 'hold' before 'moderate'. However, this will have other effects which may or may not be undesirable. Thus, a patch to just move the administrivia test might be preferable. The real problem, and the reason I didn't mention administrivia in my original reply, is I don't think the administrivia filter as it currently exists is going to be very effective for arbitrary "I want to subscribe" requests sent to the list posting address. It only catches things that look like syntactically correct commands.=, i.e., lines that look like keyword arg list where 'keyword' is a command and 'arg list' is an appropriaite length for the command. Thus it will catch a message with subject or a body line subscribe me but it won't catch please subscribe me or even subscribe me to this list -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
