[PLUG] Re: News Gateway

Richard Langis Jr. richard.langis at sun.com
Mon Jun 24 23:00:49 UTC 2002


If I can get a list of people who are not subscribed and post *only* via 
the NNTP server, I can also simply add them to the whitelist file.  As 
far as I know at the moment however, Randal is the only person on that list.

-Richard

Russell Senior wrote:

>>>>>>"Richard" == Richard Langis <richard.langis at sun.com> writes:
>>>>>>
> 
> Richard> If there's something I'm missing on the configuration side of
> Richard> Mailman, someone PLEASE let me know.  But from what I can
> Richard> tell from mucking around and checking out every single admin
> Richard> option I can find, the only way to keep spammers away is to
> Richard> make the list subscriber-only, and that includes the NNTP
> Richard> gateway as well.  There *might* be a conf file somewhere that
> Richard> will allow the bypassing of subscriber checks for messages
> Richard> from the NNTP gateway, but it's not obvious on the admin
> Richard> pages.
> 
> One way to do this would be for the non-subscriber bounces to go
> through some kind of procmail like thing that looked for NNTP gateway
> signatures and then auto-approved those.
> 
> 


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   ~ Richard Langis Jr. ~
   richard.langis at sun.com





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