[TriLUG] need advice about setting GNU Mailman "require_explicit_destination" setting to No

Pete Soper pete at soper.us
Mon Jul 1 13:14:36 EDT 2013


On 6/30/2013 5:44 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Turn moderation on for mail that is not from members.
It was on already. This is about mail from members that is only 
implicitly (via forwarding) to the list.
> Also you can directly edit the pages that mailman displays to users - so if its doing something stupid, you can correct it of bypass it (the beauty of open source)
Murphy didn't allow me to customize the appearance before, so I had to 
pick a name that's meaningful in most contexts but dumb looking in others.

Thanks,
Pete
>
>
> On Jun 30, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>    I maintain the TriEmbed.org mailing list with stupid address triembed at TriEmbed.org, because a sensible address like mail or discuss at TriEmbed.org shows up in the GNU Mailman user interface web pages as "discuss" or "mail" and that is both stupid and confusing.
>>   I've put a forwarder in place but mail to that address goes to moderation with "Message has implicit destination." I can fix this with the setting, but wonder if this is likely to increase spam?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pete
>>
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