[Mailman-Users] Re: broadcast only

[Tanner Lovelace]

Darron Froese wrote:

> On 11/28/00 6:53 PM, "David" <david at kenpro.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>> 1. Turn off the archiving feature.
>>> 2. Make *only* the list administrators be able to post to the list - making
>>> it essentially a broadcast only list.
>>> 
>>> These can be done from within the administration interface.
>> 
>> Are you referring to the "privacy" section? or is there somewhere else?
> 
> 
> You betcha. I don't know of another place other than in the privacy section.
> 
>> As far as I can see, you can only force admin. approval, which means you
>> could easily finish up with a lot of bogus posts to reject. Is there any
>> way to bounce non-admin. posts completely? I cant see one.
> 
> 
> Yes that is correct. I *don't* know of a way to reject any non-admin posts
> right out of hand. That's the only solution that I can find in the web admin
> and from searching the list archives manually.
> 
> It's a bit of a pain in the ass for "broadcast only" lists.
> 
This may not be the most elegant method, but why don't you try disabling 
the posting
alias.  You could change the posting alias to be something like 
listname-private at ...
You might need to uncheck the box that says to make sure the list 
address is in the "To:"
or "CC:" headers.  You might also want to always post to it using BCC: 
so that the
private address isn't accidentally made public.

Using this method, if someone tried to send a message to listname at ... it 
would automatically
bounce because there wouldn't be any alias setup for it.  I realize, 
however, that this is security
through obscurity which isn't the best choice, but it would probably 
work for most casual
situations...

Tanner Lovelace