Greets, I run a couple software support mailing lists on a site that's been around for a decade or so. I'm the only admin, and an avalanche of spam crashes down on me every day.
Only subscribers are allowed to post and non-subscriber post attempts are silently discarded, which allows me to avoid the burden of moderating spam addressed to the list. But it's not enough, because I get tons of spam going to the list-owner addresses. Ideally, I'd like to simply turn off the list-owner addresses and get internal notifications (such as oversize moderation messages) sent to a private address. However, I understand that it is not possible to configure Mailman that way. Therefore, I would like to know the easiest way to accomplish these two goals: 1) Eliminate any public reference to the list-owner address, so that there is no implied offer of support. There's the MM-Mailman-Footer for the three public html pages, which I can hand-edit. I think that does it, right? 2) Create a filter for messages sent to list-owner that only passes mail generated by Mailman itself. In a perfect world, I would offer a higher level of support, but my users are sophisticated enough to handle a certain amount of troubleshooting, and my contact information isn't hard for humans to discover. Indeed, those very users would *want* me to lighten my administrative burden so that I can spend more time adding features and fixing bugs. Best, Marvin Humphrey ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
