Re: Some notes on mailman lists

[Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>]

On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> - You can choose to send nonsubscriber mail to the moderator, or to 
> send it to the list. The flag is called "Restrict posting privilege to 
> list members", and you set it under "Privacy Options".

We've been doing this few a couple of years now.  Though it's
a pain sifting through the crude it's kept our list pretty much
spam free.

One thing to note is that you'll probably need to explicitly
permit messages from IESG, IAB, rfc-editor, your ADs, etc..
For example, here's what pwe3's exception post list currently
looks like:

internet-drafts@ietf.org
rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org
iesg-secretary@ietf.org
chair@ietf.org
nsyracus@cnri.reston.va.us
sob@harvard.edu
mankin@isi.edu

Plus a few miscellaneous lurkers that primarily employ archives
rather than subscribing.

-danny