[RHCE] Low Price Tobacco

[Lisa Lorenzin]

> Hay Jim - I feel your pain. I used to deal with this a little more sneakily.
> If the email was legit and the user had simply used one of their alternative
> email addresses, I would subscribe the new address (no welcome message) and
> then set that address to "no mail".

as a list admin, i go back and forth on that.  i'm a pretty firm believer
that users should know where their accounts are subscribed, even if it's
currently set to nomail.  (the recent majordomo bug is one reason why...)  
plus if it's a low-technical-clue list, it can be a pain to manually
subscribe people on a regular basis.

my current practice is to reject the email and include canned instructions
on why their post was rejected and how to subscribe...

> Mailman 2.1.x makes this much easier, as it can all be done with a click on
> the Admindb page.

ooh!  are we running mailman 2.1.x on the trilug mailserver?  i don't see 
that option in the mailman interfaces for the ncsysadmin lists.  if it had 
that feature, i'd probably switch to my practice to "subscribe them myself 
and send them a canned email to let them know what i did," to get both 
simplicity and notification.

> BTW: I can modify the aliases for the current list so that RHCE *does* get
> filtered via SpamAssassin before being handed off to Mailman (or actually I
> can make Mailman do the scan, either way its not hard).  Let me know if you
> want that!

correct me if i'm wrong, but that wouldn't actively filter out spam - it
would just require everyone to have the appropriate procmail recipe to
filter the spam out at the user end.  right?

> > Just relax. This is ONE piece of spam. If we get more,
> > I'll set the "non members" bit back. Sound ok?
> > Alternately, if everyone violently wants "members
> > only" I'll slap it back on straight off, no UN
> > resolution required.

+1

i'd rather have it set to members only as a policy.

						regards,

							lisa

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