CweAdmin/MailingListAdministration

Mailing List Administration    (6X)

• The software used to handle our mailing lists in the CWE is mailman    (6Y)
• read up about mailman at http://www.list.org    (6Z)

FAQ    (70)

• How can I accomodate community members who may be posting from different e-mail addresses?    (71)
• What I'd usually do is to subscribe a member's multiple email addresses (like <name@domain.com>, <name@my.domain.com> and <name@netscape.net>) and mark all the alternate addresses with "no mail" at the mailman list admin "Membership Management" page. That way, members will be able to post from multiple addresses, but will only receive one copy in their inbox.    (72)
• alternatively, When you handle "pending moderator requests", there is actually a box you can check, that allows a email address to go through a filter and be automatically discarded (which we do for spam) or accepted (as we would want in our case here.) The first time a member posts from his non-subscribed address, the list administrator can check off the appropriate filter, and that should work too.    (73)

• My CWE comes with a [COP-test] forum, by default. Can I delete it?    (89)
• The [COP-test] forum which we set up generically in a new cwe install, is there for the purposes of functionally testing the cwe archived forum, and is useful subseuqently too, especially if we are trying to diagnose system problems (without having to disturb production forums).    (8A)
• I know spam is a hassle, for list-owners, particularly for open forums. If that's your problem, we might suggest that you:    (8B)
• (a) remove all extraneous users to that list. For system purposes, if you just leave <mharc@agnt.cim3.net> and <admin@cim3.com> and then remove all other subscribers you don't need.    (8C)
• (b) configure it so that mailman will be automatically discarding non-member postings and not send them to the list-owner/moderator. This can be done by: (ref. source: http://listowner.org/pipermail/lo/2004-March/000047.html)    (8D)
• In the Privacy Options / Sender Filters:    (8E)
• Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined. (Details for *generic_nonmember_action*) -- Set to Discard    (8F)
• Should messages from non-members, which are automatically discarded, be forwarded to the list moderator? (Edit *forward_auto_discards*) -- Set to No    (8G)
• That should take care of most of the spam problems automatically (although if subscribers are spoofed, then you still have to deal with it.    (8H)