[Mailman-Users] Blocking a User
Hi: I know it is possible to ban a user from all the lists in my Mailman installation at once. I know I can ban him from an individual list, however, I have almost 100 lists, and when I ban him from one, he just moves to another. Is there a way to ban him once and for all? Dave -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a User
David Andrews sent the message below at 12:25 7/28/2006: Hi: I know it is possible to ban a user from all the lists in my Mailman installation at once. I know I can ban him from an individual list, however, I have almost 100 lists, and when I ban him from one, he just moves to another. Is there a way to ban him once and for all? End original message. - I think you contradicted yourself there unless you are asking how to ban an address (which is all you can do) from all of the lists at once. I know the answer is you can and you have to use a bin/withlist script to do it but I don't know enough to actually right the script for you. I know that isn't very helpful but I really wanted to address another deeper issue here and that is that there really is no way you can ban somebody permanently. All somebody has to do to get back on a public, open-subscription list is to get a new e-mail address. So you could ban one e-mail address and this person could get another free account at yahoo or msn or somewhere else and you are back where you started. It can be quite maddening and frustrating. Dragon ~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~ -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a User
Dragon wrote:
David Andrews sent the message below at 12:25 7/28/2006:
I know it is possible to ban a user from all the lists in my Mailman
installation at once. I know I can ban him from an individual list,
however, I have almost 100 lists, and when I ban him from one, he
just moves to another. Is there a way to ban him once and for all?
End original message. -
I think you contradicted yourself there unless you are asking how to
ban an address (which is all you can do) from all of the lists at once.
I know the answer is you can and you have to use a bin/withlist
script to do it but I don't know enough to actually right the script for you.
There are a couple of ways to do this. The withlist method for exactly
this is described at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-July/052121.html.
The other method is to run bin/config_list with appropriate input ofer
all lists via a shell script such as
#!/bin/sh
for list in `bin/list_lists --bare`
do bin/config_list -i input_file $list
done
where input_file contains
mlist.ban_list.append('[EMAIL PROTECTED]')
See 'bin/config_list --help' and 'bin/list_lists --help'.
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a user from subscribing
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Margaret Levine Young wrote: We have set up a series of actions for a list manager to take if a subscriber is breaking the list rules, starting with one-week hand-moderation (so the list managers have to approve the subscriber's posts). The final action is to throw the person off the list. Is there a way to tell Mailman to ignore subscription requests from a specific address? In ListProc, we could add the address to an IGNORE file. This is possible in mailman 2.1 which is due out soon. (the beta should be out very soon) Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
