I have a similar problem. We want all of our new subscribers being moderated initially until we see that they did not simply join the list to spam. We de-linked the accept list. As I understand, this will send all posts from persons NOT in the accept list to the maintainer. Our maintainer will then read and forward the message(s), eventually manually adding the email address to the accept file OR she will delete the msg and add the email addy to the reject file.
This seems to be working? Would be a pain for you though, because you would have to manually add all your subs as they come in into the accept file. I might suggest adding a nonaccept file as a feature...not the same as reject (doesn't reject just trash the message? We want it to go to the maintainer)
Jo
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Listmail wrote:
Would be a pain for you though, because you would have to manually add all your subs as they come in into the accept file. I might suggest adding a nonaccept file as a feature...not the same as reject (doesn't reject just trash the message? We want it to go to the maintainer)
If someone in the reject file attempts to subscribe, their message is bounced to the maintainer, not simply trashed.
We copied the appropriate `reject' recipe from rc.request to rc.submit so that the reject file is also applied to ordinary list postings. In order to approve the post, the listmeister needs to remove the offending address from the reject file, bounce the mail back to the list, and then put their address back into the reject file. A little kludgy, but less of a pain than moderating the whole list.
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