[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: suggested improvement for Mailman's bounce processing

[Bob Puff]

This should definitely be configurable, if implemented.  I don't have any
lists that would benefit by this... in fact, this is not desirable on any of
my lists.

Bob


---------- Original Message -----------
From: Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>
To: Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
Cc: Mailman-Developers at python.org, James Ralston
<qralston+ml.mailman-developers at andrew.cmu.edu>, Jon Scott Stevens
<jon at latchkey.com>, Jeff Schnitzer <jeff at infohazard.org>
Sent: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:42:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Fwd: suggested improvement for Mailman's
bounce processing

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> On Aug 11, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 
> > At 4:35 PM -0400 2006-08-11, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> >
> >>  Although I have not implemented it yet, Mailman 2.2 will definitely
> >>  get auto-moderation.  IOW, should a non-member send a message to a
> >>  mailing list, and if that mailing list is so configured, Mailman  
> >> will
> >>  hold the message and send a message to the From address asking for
> >>  verification of the post.  I'm assuming this is what you mean by
> >>  "auto-moderation".
> >
> > I'm confused.  Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're talking about,
> > Mailman 2.1.x already does this today.  You try to post to a list
> > that is restricted to subscribers only, and then your message may be
> > rejected, or you may get a message saying that the post is being held
> > for moderation, or it may get silently thrown away, etc....  It all
> > depends on how the listowner has configured things, but to this
> > level, this kind of thing works today.
> 
> Today, held messages still have to be approved by the moderator.   
> What I propose is to allow posters to self-moderate, simply by  
> verifying that their address is real.  This probably means a  
> clickable link and (maybe) a header cookie for replying.  Think  
> Gmane's auto-moderation approach.
> 
> - -Barry
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