At 07:37 AM 4/15/96 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Lawrence S Rosenberg, Esq wrote:
>
>> Can I prevent an outsider from posting to an OPEN, UNMODERATED
>> majordomo? I.e., is there a 'first line of defense' that would at least
>> require the poster to subscribe?
>
>There's a restrict_post option in your configuration file. It points to
>a file containing a list of those eligible to post to your list. On the
>assumption that your majordomo is set up in the usual way, putting your
>listname there will restrict posts to those subscribed to your list,
>because there is a file with your listname containing the email addresses
>of subscribers. (It may seem I'm making this overly complicated, but you
>can point restrict_post to a *different* file if you want to, so it's
>important that restrict_post point to the file you intend.)
>
>Cheerio
>Patrick
Patrick, cheerio to you! and all the others who helped. You hit it
... directly, now no more outside hits. <smile>
The relevant portion of the config file is:
# restrict_post [restrict_post] (undef) <resend>
# If defined only address listed in one of the files (colon or space
# separated) can post to the mailing list. This is less useful than it
# seems it should be since there is no way to create these files if
# you do not have access to the machine running resend. This mechanism
# will be replaced in a future version of majordomo/resend.
restrict_post = valleylaw
...................................................
Adding the name of my list, valleylaw, as the value for
restrict_post is what did it, or, you can create a text file, I suppose, if
you want your brother-in-law to be able to post his wisdom; but he doesn't
want to subscribe to receive your list members' wisdom. <g>.
However, this value seems to work as INCLUSIVE so to selectively
EXCLUDE only certain addresses or words, you do need a killfile as Mr. Fu
Bar <fubar@dino.fdt.net> suggested uptopic.
Just thought I'd add that so that other newbies like me don't get
confused. /@\@\ Thanks again ...
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