On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:02:47PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Sulvain, > > On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 18:35 +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > > Check "Privacy options..."/"Spam filters" > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admin/YOURLIST/privacy/spam > > > > > > I have seen those. But I am not sure what to fill in there to get the > > > above result. If I set the 'header_filter_rules' to some magic header > > > name and the action to Accept does that mean all other mail is silently > > > discarded? > > > > I think you can write such a rule, and then add another one that > > Discards all other mails. > > Aha! If you enter a spam rule then you get an option to add more rules. > Doh... That was not obvious at all for me from the interface. > > OK, so I added spam rule 1 that just accepts on: > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Then the second rule matches on: > Message-Id: .* > And Holds the message for now. > > This supposes that the commit script always has a Message-Id of that > form and spam won't. If this works out then I will change the second > rule to Reject.
I don't think this will work, because afaik all mail transit via another machine called monty-python. We tried to setup such filtering for Emacs' commit list but we had to disable it at a point :/ > > > Another question. There are a lot of emails hitting the lists written in > > > non-English, often using using Asian charsets. Since all communication > > > on the list is supposed to be in English it would be nice to be able to > > > discard such posts. Is that possible? > > > > I don't think Mailman provides this feature. > > > > Anyway, apparently either this stopped, either the FSF system > > administrators took care of the issue :) > > Yes it seems those are gone. Great work. > Who administrates this and where are changes in setup sent to? > I would like to subscribe to these kind of infrastructure setup change > message because I am maintaining a couple of projects and mailinglists > and it is good to know when something changes (and why of course). I don't think there is such a list. Afaik, the FSF sysadmins do not have much time and rely on the fact they work in the same physical place, reducing the need for written communication. You can ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] though, I never did :) -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Savannah-help-public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
