[Mailman-Developers] Feature Request: Jerk Mode

[Terri Oda]

On May 5, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'd like a subscription mode where someone will receive all messages,
> but when they post their message is only delivered back to them.

I don't think this is really appropriate for Mailman as a whole, but it 
shouldn't be impossible for you to implement.  How's your Python?  If 
you're not too squeamish about poking around in there yourself, I think 
you should be able to go take a look at the code designed so people 
don't get their own posts, and do the opposite for people with another 
bit set.  It's going to mess with your user records and such to have 
this extra setting, but if these people are becoming that much of a 
problem, it might be worth doing.

If you're not into poking around in Mailman, you could do this before 
the message makes it to Mailman -- set yourself up a script that, if 
the message comes from a given set of addresses, sends a message back 
that looks like it came from mailman (not that hard to forge) 
containing that message.  Then don't bother to send the message on to 
mailman.  This allows you to keep your solution separate from mailman 
so you won't have to remember to change code again and again when you 
upgrade (although if your list appearance changes, your "jerk" might 
notice the discrepancy... most people tune that sort of thing out 
though).  If you're not up for programming this from scratch, you could 
probably adapt some "vacation" mail script for the purpose -- I'm sure 
a web search would turn up something appropriate.

  Terri