Re: Blanket email ban

Robert Goldman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.common-lisp-net.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/11/15 Jun 11 -4:38 PM, Mario S. Mommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yes, you can add a corresponding regex to the ban_list option in
> mailman. A version of the instructions can be found here:
> 
> https://calmail.berkeley.edu/docs/mailman/regexp.html

Is there any chance this is disabled on cl.net?  I tried to block all
twitter emails using

^.*@twitter.com

which I believe to be correct according to those docs.  But I get this
error message:

Error: Bad email address for option ban_list: ...<full echo of ban list
here>

Thanks,
Robert

> 
> Regards,
> 	Mario
> 
>  On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:03:29 -0500
> Robert Goldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The ASDF-devel list is acquiring a bunch of bogus Twitter messages.
>> [These aren't really spam, but are admin messages that are leaking
>> onto asdf-devel.]  Unfortunately, these don't all come form a single
>> email address.
>>
>> Would it be possible for us to simply dump any email from any address
>> @twitter.com?
>>
>> thanks!
>> R
>>
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