[Mailman-Users] Limiting the number of posts from a list member

[Dragon]

David Scribner sent the message below at 10:24 3/25/2008:
>I am running Mailman 2.1.5 on OSX Tiger server.  Is there any way of
>implementing a limit on the number of daily posts to a list from a
>member?  We have a couple of members on one list that have nothing to
>do but send off posts to the list they belong to, some times 10 - 12
>separate posts within a short period of time.  I would like to be able
>to set a number of allowed posts for them to say 4 or 5 per day.  Is
>this possible?
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The default distribution of mailman does not offer this 
functionality. It would require some custom code to implement.

The only other option you have is to place these members on moderated 
posting and have a human play traffic cop.

Dragon

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