[vox-tech] Mailman question

[Dave Margolis]

Rick Moen wrote:

>Quoting Dave Margolis (margolid@ecs.csus.edu):
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>>I'm trying to configure Mailman (ver. 2.1.3) to be as simple as a
>>one-way mailing list as possible.
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>Answers below are based on 2.1.4, which differs only trivially.
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>>I'd like to allow the owner to send monthly newsletter style messages
>>to the mailing list.  I want users to be able to subscribe/unsubscribe
>>per normal.
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>>So far I've figured everything I want out except for the most obvious
>>thing: turning [off] the ability for the subscribers to send messages
>>to the list...  
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Yes, [off] was missing.  That's just me typing too fast.  Thanks.

>(I'm assuming the omitted word, above, was "off".  If not, please
>clarify.)
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>Under Privacy Options, pick Sender Filters.  Set item "By default,
>should new list member postings be moderated?" to "Yes".  This is the
>most-important setting in configuring a Mailman mailing list to be
>announce-only.  
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>Set item "Action to take when a moderated member posts to the list" to
>either "Hold" (default) or "Reject", per your preference.  (You could
>alternatively pick "Discard", but that's a bit too BOfHish even for me.)
>This setting specifies how subscribers' posts should be treated if
>they're not on the very short list of approved posters.
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>If you use "Reject", then type some explanatory text into item "Text to
>include in any rejection notice to be sent to moderated members who post
>to this list" to remind subscribers that the mailing list is
>announce-only.
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>I would recommend that you set item "Action to take for postings from
>non-members for which no explicit action is defined" to "Discard",
>because 99% of such postings will be spam.  (Bouncing spam is no longer
>defensible, in 2004, given the ubiquity of forged headers in such mail.)
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>If you do that, also set item "Should messages from non-members, which
>are automatically discarded, be forwarded to the list moderator?" to
>"No", to preserve your sanity.
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>You'll want to remove the "mod" (moderated) flag from your own
>subscribed address[es], the ones from which you'll be posting (under
>Membership Management, Membership List).  If you or other authorised
>parties prefer to post from non-subscribed addresses, add them to item
>"List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically
>accepted" on the aforementioned Privacy Options, Sender Filters page.
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There will only be one "announcer" (the guy I'm setting this up for), 
and me involved in this thing, but that's a great tip either way.

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>>I'd also be nice if it was obvious that it wasn't a public list from
>>the user's perspective (I suppose I can add a note about this to the
>>public html pages myself).
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>I would strongly recommend that.  Remember, you can use the
>administrative "Edit the public HTML pages" link for that function.
>Note that you can (and should) remind users about the list's
>announce-only nature on (1) the General list information page, (2) the 
>Subscribe results page, and (3) the User specific options page.
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Yup, will do, and thanks again!
Dave