Troy Buffum wrote: >On 7/8/06, Martin Dennett (Gmail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Admin Screen > Privacy Options > ban_list >> >> Add: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I never would have thought of using a wildcard entry for this purpose. I >wonder if you could "invite" an entire domain with this command? Not that >anyone would be crazy enough to want to, just food for thought.
The ban_list and all the *_these_nonmembers entries accept regular expressions (not exactly 'wildcards' see <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html> for syntax) as indicated in the 'details' for these entries. And no, you can't use a regular expression for an invitation as it could generate an infinite number of addresses. E.g., the number of syntactically valid email addresses in a domain is a huge number even if you limit the length, and there is no way to know which of these might be in the very small proportion that are valid without sending mail to all of them. Even if you limit the local part to no more than 12 characters and allow only case insensitive letters, digits, dash, underscore and period, there are over 10^19 combinations. If you could test these for validity at 1 per microsecond (1,000,000 per second) it would still take over 300,000 years to test all of them. In fact, it would probably take that long just to generate them. Theres no limit to what one can think up with a little 'food' :-) -- 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
