Re: Rights to write with a list

Dan -

All very good points.  (I had forgotten that it was a patch.)

Ed

At 11:24 AM Monday, 9/10/2007, Daniel Liston wrote -=>
>I think the non-member-bounce is an add-on/patch to majordomo 1.94.5 from
>Joe's site, and not part of the standard distribution (yet).
>
>ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/majordomo-patches/1.94.5/config_parse.pl-resend.0
>
>While many (including myself) find this patch extremely useful, there
>should be a warning that 90+% of internet mail today is spam, and more
>than 90% of that is from a forged address that will either bounce, or
>just anger an innocent recipient because your non-member message just
>appeared to them as spam.
>
>It is better to post rules for your list on a web page, or in the auto-
>help message from majordomo than to risk the undeliverable, unexpected,
>or unwanted auto-replies from your list.  Other choices/options are to
>open your list, exposing it to much spam, or moderate it, exposing the
>moderator to much spam.
>
>Dan Liston
>
>Ed Kasky wrote:
>>At 05:49 AM Monday, 9/10/2007, Francl Fabien wrote -=>
>>>Hello,
>>>How can one warn a person whom it does not have the rights to 
>>>write with a list
>>>Thank you.
>>If you mean to inform someone who attempts to post to a closed list 
>>to which they are not subscribed, take a
>>look at the following in the list config:
>>         # non_member_bounce    [enum] (sender) <resend> 
>> /;sender;sender-owner
>>         # One of four values: blank, sender, sender-owner or no_one.  If
>>         # left  blank the message is bounced to the list owner.  Sender
>>         # allows the  sender to be notified in addition to the owner
>>         # receiving the bounced  message. Sender-owner causes the sender to
>>         # be notified, but not the  owner. no_one should be self-expanatory
>>non_member_bounce   =
>
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