On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:17:22PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 15:43 10/25/2000 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
As to sending it to lists which have subscriber-post-only, it is, as usual, a consequence of spam prevention and not malice aforethought. Kinda sucks, of course, because anonymous posters can't post. Hope they fix that in future versions of majordomo, but I bet it'll be a while.
The current version of majordomo allows for an authorized-poster file, which I use with one of my lists to let people who aren't on the list contribute. You could use a cron job to combine subscribers with add'l posters to allow some of the more-likely-to-respond cypherpunks to post.
Here's the cron-run script that I use to do it. In my case it combines the regular list and the list of subscribers to the digest version and any other address that's been added to the allowed posters list into a new allowed posters list. If you set up majordomo to send rejected emails to the list manager (the default) then any "legit" poster who's post gets bounced by somehow not being on the approved list can be added by the list operator. #!/bin/sh mjhome=/home/majordom if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then echo "usage: updateperms list1 list2 permlist" exit 1 fi cd $mjhome/lists if [ $1 -nt $3 -o $2 -nt $3 ]; then cat $1 $2 $3 | sort | uniq > $3.tmp && mv $3.tmp $3 echo "updated $3" fi -- Eric Murray Consulting Security Architect SecureDesign LLC http://www.securedesignllc.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5