[KLUG Members] Blocking SPAM using Mailman

[Bruce Smith]

> >At KLUG, we simply changed the Mailman configuration to bounce any
> >messages from non-subscribers (instead of moderating the messages).
> >
> >Any subscriber who mistakenly sends from the wrong email address, is
> >bounced and has to resend their message from the correct email.
> >
> >Works great for us!
> >
> >For older versions of mailman (like Sourceforge uses), there is a cron
> >job which can run periodically and silently purge the moderation queue.
> >  
> >
> Ya know, i've looked several times for that setting, and never found it, 
> it is named something non-obvious, or am i just dumb?  I'm running 
> 2.0.11, do you know when that was added?

2.1.15 (KLUG) has the option, 2.0.9 (sourceforge) does NOT have the
option. I suspect that it was not in 2.0.11 and probably added in 2.1.x.

I know of some sourceforge lists that "run a cronjob" hourly to silently
purge all held messages so no administrator action is required.  You may
want to check into that option, or upgrade Mailman.  The 2.1 series has
a lot of nice new features over 2.0, besides the automatic bounce.

 - BS