Sorry about the last post, I intended to send it to the list, not just Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Samir Mishra Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 08:09 To: 'Tim Peters' Subject: RE: [Zope] RE: [Zope-dev] Prohibiting Spams on the List Have you seen http://tmda.net/? Another option may be to allow only subscriber addresses, and all users of/with alternate addresses should be directed to the gmane.org site. I sympathize. And agree, holding emails for review is not a realistic option. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim@zope.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 05:10 To: phil@xfr.co.uk Cc: zope-dev@zope.org; 'Mohsen Moeeni'; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] RE: [Zope-dev] Prohibiting Spams on the List [Philip Kilner]
... Does Mailman have a "nomail" facility that subscribers could set /themselves/ on secondary accounts?
There are different versions of Mailman (of course), but at least recent ones offer this. If you go to your personal list subscription page on the web, a checkbox to suspend delivery is the first of the listed checkbox options. That seems a reasonable workaround to me. As to why this comes up, I expect my own case is typical: I have 6 POP3 accounts with various providers. I can retrieve email from all of them when logged in with any of the providers, but SMTP access (for sending email) is often limited to the specific account I'm logged into. For example, I cannot use my Zope Corp SMTP account, or my Comcast SMTP account, when logged in to my MSN account from a dialup line in a hotel room. It doesn't matter whose "fault" that is (although I suspect it's MSN's ...), it's just the fact of the matter. I don't have dialup facilities thru Zope Corp or Comcast, so when I'm on the road and restricted to dialup access, I send mail via MSN or Hotmail, or not at all. I'm told that posting from my Hotmail account doesn't project a professional image <wink>. The same kind of thing happens on the one list I admin where non-member posts are held for review (this is the PSF Board mailing list, where non-member posts can be legitimate, e.g. a company asking about becoming a PSF sponsor). There are fewer than a dozen members on that list, and the legit traffic is usually light, so accommodating two or ten email addresses per member was a finite task there.
In gentler times, your concern would be wonderful - in the current climate, you'll drown if you can't automate it. Save yourself, while you can!
;-)
If there's spam on Zope's mailing lists, I never see it(*), so my only stake in this is in a list-admin capacity. (*) I never see it because I started this project -- and it works <wink>: http://www.spambayes.org/ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman-20/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman-20/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman-20/listinfo/zope-dev )