Eric Boutilier wrote: > 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] >
A certain amount of cross-os.o-posting would be fixed by allowing all os.o members to post to any os.o list. The proper solution long term would be to modify the Mailman source to check (using find_members) to see if the user is subscribed to *any* list, and if so, then approve it. The easier hack would be to cron this every few hours or something, and use a combination of list_lists->list_members->config_list to hack this up in a crude and ugly manner. This was another thing on my list of things to do which I never did, and is now easy to talk about now that it's SEP ;-) cheers, steve _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
