On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 14:07 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 09:01 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > So I'm thinking that I'll just make the default mechanism be discard. So > > that if a message is posted to this list by a person who is not a > > subscriber then the message will be silently dropped. > > I have been wondering about this for some lists I run. Personally I am > loath to make this change on my lists because it means that posts from > people who are not subscribed, or (relatively common in our case) are > from subscribers but using an non-subscribed address (normally > accidentally), are dropped silently. > > I'd be happier with a reject of those messages - at least the innocent > get some level of reply - but you then also set yourself up as a a > mechanism for doing bounce spamming (which you are already at the moment > since those held messages will have generated a "Your message is being > held" type message back to the original sender). I don't think I have that feature turned on. I wanted the messages held and no notification given specifically for the aforementioned reason. -sv
