[Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > BTW, I tend to agree. I sure wish Mailman did a mail-back > confirmation for non-member postings. I also wish I knew > someone who could do something about that <wink>.
I've been thinking about that, and have come to believe that the difficulty is mostly due to your over-complicating the issue. All we really need to do is change Mailman to send every message it receives to [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of bothering list owners and subscribers with them. Then you can personally review each one, and approve, reject, or discard, as appropriate. The only approved sender address on all lists would be hard-coded to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you would resend the messages you deemed worthy of subscriber attention. Since you already have GnuPG configured, it will be easy for Mailman to confirm that you really sent such messages. Even better, users could send their messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to begin with! That will make Mailman even simpler. It will also save users considerable time and embarrassment. For example, sometimes I really can't tell whether a segfault in Zope is due to a Python bug, a Zope bug, or a bug in platform-supplied software. It's embarrassing to post about it to what turns out to be a wrong list, and that wastes a lot of peoples' time. Of course [EMAIL PROTECTED] could figure out the right list to send it to, making life easier for everyone. Even better, despite that, e.g., I do want to subscribe to various Zope lists, I don't want to see a lot of the messages they carry. If I could subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead, [EMAIL PROTECTED] could figure out which messages to send me, based on feedback I generously supply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about messages [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me that I didn't really want to see. In the end, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be the only address anyone needs to know, for list subscriptions, and for sending messages to lists. Mailman can be thrown away entirely, and presto! All the problems people have with Mailman will go away along with it. Best of all, we could start doing it today! In fact, I think I'll send this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], to kick it off. _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
