X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F5F11F61E8; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:50:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22027-10; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:50:11 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF49511F6236; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:50:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B520356423; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:50:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: (hashcash-sendmail, from uid 1001); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:50:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:50:09 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Bruce Momjian , Kris Jurka , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: mailing list moderation of subscriptions Message-ID: <20060427055009.GC97354@pervasive.com> References: <200604251313.k3PDDo528776@candle.pha.pa.us> <20060425105334.X34052@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060425105334.X34052@ganymede.hub.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060427:scrappy@postgresql.org::yH3jwWA7Z1bZjAon:000000000000000 0000000000000000000000002Siw X-Hashcash: 1:20:060427:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us::78V8TMqhPjugZzAf:000000000000000 00000000000000000000000018jQ X-Hashcash: 1:20:060427:books@ejurka.com::YTJ4i532bHnn2FFj:05LSP X-Hashcash: 1:20:060427:pgsql-www@postgresql.org::nCk3vT3Q45miH2b2:0000000000000 0000000000000000000000005EEV X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200604/183 X-Sequence-Number: 9959 On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:56:32AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Actually, Kris is referring to ppl sending in a subscribe message, but not > sending back a confirmation ... the list moderator has the ability to > approve such requests, which I general do when I clean out the lists ... > the problem is that I know that I've had issues where that confirmation > mail gets lost as spam (ie. Yahoo's spam features send it to the bulk mail > folder, that I've had experience with ppl losing emails in) ... Surely there's got to be a way to tell majordomo to knock that off... why on earth would a moderator want to see all the subscription requests that are outstanding??? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461