John Fitzsimons writes:

 > "Post by non-member to a members-only list"
 > 
 > I hadn't expected that message as I was sure that the person who
 > posted was already a member. 

The person may have been, but she may have been posting from a
different address.

 > Looks like she was a bit fast in posting.

That's the most likely reason, I guess.  But for future reference,
remember that Mailman 2 has no notion of "member", only "subscribed
address".  Mailman 3 will surely have some way for members to specify
alternative addresses.

And possibly, some way to guess certain variants.  Eg, if
"[email protected]" is subscribed, then
"[email protected]" probably is the same person.  But
Mailman 2 doesn't have it.

I chose that example (real but obfuscated) for a reason.
Specifically, the second variant is today used only by spammers; I
haven't sent a message with that "From" since 1995, and I doubt it's
been used as "Sender" more than a very small handful of times since
2000.  So this would have to be an aid to moderators/list owners, not
something one automates.

(I've reported this as a feature request:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/514625.)
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