[Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available now or not?

[JC Dill]

On 03:32 PM 3/30/01, J C Lawrence wrote:
 >
 >> 2) Is [content filtering on the headers or body, to block messages
 >> that are in reply to an entire digest] possible with mailman?
 >
 >Yes, within the minor limitations of regular expressions.

So, in other words, it would be trivially easy for someone using mailman to 
configure their list to reject a post that said:

         Mailman-Users digest, Vol

in the subject (a header), but not so easy to reject a post that said:

         Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to

in the body.

<rant>
I'm just not sure.  I mean, if it's that easy, why hasn't THIS LIST BEEN 
CONFIGURED TO DO JUST THAT?????
</rant>

How do I know you aren't misleading me?  If it's that easy, certainly this 
list would have been properly configured.  I mean, letting a totally 
useless subject line stand in a post to be redistributed to the list is 
really letting your list membership down.  IMHO, ever responsible list 
administrator MUST put in filters to ensure that posts that are submitted 
to their subscribers follow list rules, when filtering for such rules is an 
easy thing to do.  A subject like "Subject: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 
#1115 - 16 msgs" is clearly a violation of RFC 1855, if not also a 
violation of the list's specific rules.

It really should be an automatic feature of the mailing list software, 
whenever you add a digest.  List owners shouldn't have to do anything to 
trigger this, and the default behavior should be to bounce the 
non-compliant post back to the author with an explanation about why it's 
being automatically rejected (just as bounced mail gets sent back with a 
reason when the MTA can't deliver it).

Bingo, no more problems with digest users forgetting their manners and 
sending entire digests back to the list, all using the useless (to the 
other list members) digest subject line.


On 04:53 AM 3/31/01, lcarter1 at cwctv.net wrote:
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>On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:25:05 -0500 mailman-users-request at python.org wrote:
>From: mailman-users-request at python.org
>Subject: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1115 - 16 msgs
>Reply-to: mailman-users at python.org
>X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.3 (101270)
>MIME-version: 1.0
>Content-type: multipart/mixed; 
>boundary=63.102.49.29.506.16634.986041441.093.10336
>To: mailman-users at python.org
>Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:25:05 -0500
>Return-Path: mailman-users-admin at python.org
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>Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to
>         mailman-users at python.org