[Zope] Restricting Posts to Subscribers

Jerome R. Westrick jerry at westrick.com
Fri Jun 25 10:59:56 EDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 16:30, Andrew Sawyers wrote:
> A similar discussion is taking place on zope-dev and I'd like to bring 
> that here as well.  I'd like to propose that we change the Mailman 
> policy for this list to restrict posting to subscribers only.  I'm sure 
> others will agree and others will not.   Some of the recent issues I've 
> seen are:
> A) I can't stop some logical extensions (.zip) which are now containing 
> virus' from getting to the list without causing problems for those who 
> are possibly attaching valid attachments
> B) We can't stop all spam - we're using 3 rbl lists to stop as much as 
> we can; that is not good enough IMNSHO
> C) We can stop outside mailers from replying to the list illogically
> My vote is for refusing posts from non-subscriber emails.
> 
> Let the beatings begin.
> Andrew

Do it, if a person needs to use more than one emails he can always
subscribe for each, and throw away one of them.
IMHO
Jerry



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