At 08:34 AM 4/16/96 -0500, Mike Buening wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
>Frankly I've found this restrict_post to be completely useless
>(unfortunately). Not because of the way it's designed. It makes sense
>but it doesn't work in my case because a huge majority of the subscribers
>send mail from addresses that are definitely not in the list of subscribers.
>You might at first tell me to force them to subscribe one address and use
>only that address...easier said than done...when many of them have From
>addresses in their headers they've never even heard of and if you send mail
>back to some of these From addresses they'll never get that mail. People's
>"real" email addresses and the email addresses their site admins have put
>in the headers (or more accurately didn't not put in the headers) are too
>often so different that I can't use the restrict_post option.
>
>This is unfortunate but I don't know a way around.
>
>Mike
At 08:34 AM 4/16/96 -0500, Mike Buening wrote:
>Frankly I've found this restrict_post to be completely useless
>(unfortunately). Not because of the way it's designed. It makes sense
>but it doesn't work in my case because a huge majority of the subscribers
>send mail from addresses that are definitely not in the list of subscribers.
>You might at first tell me to force them to subscribe one address and use
>only that address...easier said than done...when many of them have From
>addresses in their headers they've never even heard of and if you send mail
>back to some of these From addresses they'll never get that mail. People's
>"real" email addresses and the email addresses their site admins have put
>in the headers (or more accurately didn't not put in the headers) are too
>often so different that I can't use the restrict_post option.
>
>This is unfortunate but I don't know a way around.
>
>Mike
Yeah, I'm beginning to discover how many of my members are
subscribed under aliases which allow them to receive but not to send. Don't
those messages come back to you as a BOUNCE, though? If so, you can notify
the member of the deal and tell them to subscribe under their real address.
Fortunately, the first person this happened to is very e-mail
literate and figured it out ... he spread the word for me before I could
even discover the bounces. [laugh] Ain't list maintaining fun?
Larry.
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