Re: Rates won't be this low forever

Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Wari Wahab wrote:

> Not really, it will induce frustrations for the user, Lars posted one
> mail to pyblosxom users, and he did not subscribe to the mailing list
> with that account.

I run a half dozen or so Mailman lists. The question I ask is where the
frustration has to lie. Either will all the users by spam, or by the
moderator who has to moderate a list, or by the users who do something
unusual.

> Does anyone know if moderation in mailman means subscribed users need
> not worry about being blocked. I don't want to moderate every mail, just
> ones that are not subscribed, the closest thing to that is actually a
> closed list, which means only list admins can approve, right?

If you set the list so that only people who are subscribed can post, then
you also have options about what to do with mails from those who aren't
subscribed. The setting you probably want is that you hold them for
approval.

Then a list administrator can approve them, reject them or discard them
(reject actually sends a reply, discard is something you might use on
spam).

One small bit of warning. If you let the hold get above 50 or so messages,
Mailman will slow down when going to your list administrative pages.

It's not bad at 50. I ran a list server where one mailing list owner let
the approval list reach 2000 messages, and it became visably slower.

- Serge Wroclawski



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