[Mailman-Users] Blocking a User

[Dragon]

David Andrews sent the message below at 12:25 7/28/2006:
>Hi:
>
>I know it is possible to ban a user from all the lists in my Mailman 
>installation at once.  I know I can ban him from an individual list, 
>however, I have almost 100 lists, and when I ban him from one, he 
>just moves to another.  Is there a way to ban him once and for all?
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I think you contradicted yourself there unless you are asking how to 
ban an address (which is all you can do) from all of the lists at once.

I know the answer is you can and you have to use a bin/withlist 
script to do it but I don't know enough to actually right the script for you.

I know that isn't very helpful but I really wanted to address another 
deeper issue here and that is that there really is no way you can ban 
somebody permanently. All somebody has to do to get back on a public, 
open-subscription list is to get a new e-mail address. So you could 
ban one e-mail address and this person could get another free account 
at yahoo or msn or somewhere else and you are back where you started. 
It can be quite maddening and frustrating.


Dragon

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