how to restrict postings from a particular email
Hi all, Is there a way to restrict postings from a particular email address ? I have a poster who just would not stop posting junk stuff ? Regards, Nishi
At 12:20 PM -0400 4/22/02, Kapoor, Nishikant X is rumored to have typed:
Is there a way to restrict postings from a particular email address ? I have a poster who just would not stop posting junk stuff ?
This is something of a FAQ, too; or at least is covered in the Manual file (see section 3b) that comes with the SmartList distribution. Short answer: add the address to the linked reject file. Charlie
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:39:52PM -0400, Charlie Summers wrote:
Short answer: add the address to the linked reject file.
Or, if you're up for a bit of work, and this poster sometimes has something useful to contribute, you can make a mini-moderated subset of your subscribers in an rc.custom.s file. I've got something like this in rc.custom.s20: :0 * ^((From|Reply-To).*(\ nit@wit\ |dumb@dumber\ |raving@lunatic\ )) { :0 * ^X-MYMODERATION: mysecretword { :0 fwh | formail -I X-MYMODERATION } :0 E { :0 fwh | formail -A "X-Diagnostic: Probationary Screen" :0 ! $maintainer } } Then, if you want to approve a post, just send it on with the X-MYMODERATION header, and hack the Message-ID so it won't get rejected as a duplicate. Needless to say, you want a little shell script for the approval-resending process. Probably more work than most people want, as usually anyone you don't want to freely post, you don't want on your list anyway, gathering your posters' addresses. Jim
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