Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] respond_to_post_requests=no ?

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:30:01AM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Would it be possible to change the default for the mailman variable
> respond_to_post_requests to no?  (E.g., in the automated mailing list
> creation through savannah.)  This would help cut down on backscatter
> (and hence blacklisting, etc.).  

Hi,

That sounds good.

How would you do so? Like this:

/var/mailman/bin/config_list -i ~/norespond.txt $name

norespond.txt:
respond_to_post_requests = no

?

We need to add something similar in savannah_wrapper.pl and
mycreatelist.pl and that should be enough.

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Sylvain