Two mailing-list "Q&As" below that are mostly a cut-and-paste from an off-line conversation I just had. Copying to website-discuss for wider exposure seemed like a good idea...
--Eric Q1: I want to allow certain legitimate non-subscribers to post to my Mailman mailing list. What are my alternatives? A: There's a setting for allowing/disallowing non-member (non-subscriber) posts called generic_nonmember_action. It's in the Sender Filters menu. Set it to "accept" or "hold" (the latter allowing you, the list owner, to inspect nonmember posts before letting them go through). That's the most straightforward way. The downside is you're open to spam that way -- which is why the default setting for generic_nonmember_action is "reject". The good news is, we'll be rolling out a new anti-spam feature soon that we hope will mitigate this problem significantly. Alternatively, mailing-list owners can manually populate/maintain a list of non members who are allowed to post. This is done with the "accept_these_nonmembers" option (also found in the Sender Filters menu). --------------------------------------------------------------- Q2: That's not quite my situation. I want to cross-post to my list here (on OS.o) and another list in a totally separate developer community. What are my alternatives? A: Spam levels being what they are, it's becoming very common for mailing lists everywhere, not just opensolaris.org, to disallow non-subscriber posts. Therefore, you might want to explain the situation with separate messages (not cross posted) to both lists first, and then go with the consensus that results. There's also the Mail-followup-to "standard". I haven't used it much, but here's how I think it works: The person initiating the discussion inserts a special header line, called Mail-followup-to, when they compose/send their message. When repliers click reply or reply-all (assuming their mail client adheres to the standard?), rather than do the default, the mail client will put on the To line what you (the original poster) specified in the special header line. _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
