[Fwd: those bounce messages]

[Elaine Ashton]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:

> Elaine Ashton wrote:
>> This is not correct. The email will be held for moderation which  
>> means it may sit in a queue awaiting release or, possibly bouncing/ 
>> rejection by a moderator for some time.
>> The mail is not bounced automatically if you are not subscribed.  
>> However, if you find yourself frequently posting to the lists, it  
>> would be a nice idea to subscribe and adjust your mail filters  
>> accordingly.
>
> That depends on the setup of the lists.  Some lists on  
> opensolaris.org are auto setup to bounce non-subscribers - at least  
> they were before someone took it apon themselves to go and make  
> changes to the mailman configs for project and community lists they  
> aren't the leaders for.

Unless some lists are being very creative with the configurations,  
mailman isn't so flexible as to allow you to bounce/reject all non- 
subscribers. I'm fairly certain that isn't quite possible with current  
or earlier versions of mailman as this is software engineered for the  
non-technically savvy to configure and operate at the list level.

And I'm not sure if I understand the comment about changes to the  
configs. Please, do, be very specific as I suspect there's a lack of  
information.

e.