Thread: Two issues involving unsubscribe
Marc, all: First off, I'd love to see some unsubscribe links available at www.postgresq.org/community/lists. Currently you have to drill down via the archives to get to the unsub links; this confuses a lot of users ( I know I didn't find it on the first try) and as a result I end up fielding about a dozen "how do I unsubscribe" questions a week. Second, (this is for Marc) I'd like to know what's possible in the way of banning certain addresses from subscribing, either to specific lists or to all lists. What I want to ban is: 1) anyone from uol.com.br or other domains which use email-back security; 2) certain people who cronically put on vacation notices without suspending their subscriptions; 3) users like the one today who sent me a profanity-filled request to unsubscribe. It seems like majordomo has tools to do some of the above, but they seem to be per-list only, and to require some knowledge of the filter syntax. Marc? -- Josh Berkus
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: > Marc, all: > > First off, I'd love to see some unsubscribe links available at > www.postgresq.org/community/lists. Currently you have to drill down via > the archives to get to the unsub links; this confuses a lot of users ( I > know I didn't find it on the first try) and as a result I end up fielding > about a dozen "how do I unsubscribe" questions a week. > > Second, (this is for Marc) I'd like to know what's possible in the way of > banning certain addresses from subscribing, either to specific lists or to > all lists. What I want to ban is: > 1) anyone from uol.com.br or other domains which use email-back security; > 2) certain people who cronically put on vacation notices without suspending > their subscriptions; > 3) users like the one today who sent me a profanity-filled request to > unsubscribe. > > It seems like majordomo has tools to do some of the above, but they seem to > be per-list only, and to require some knowledge of the filter syntax. > Marc? Hell no, and fairly easy ... we have a slew of them right now ... for more details, look at the access_rules documentation, but here is what is in place right now across all lists ... I even have one in place for the @uol.com.br like you requested ages back ... if its not working, though, I'll look into the 'why', as its possible I have ordering wrong: configset DEFAULT access_rules <<ENDAAB post deny, reason="The message is too big" $body_length_exceeded post deny, reply=NONE $taboo_spamassassin > 6 post consult, reply=NONE $taboo_spamassassin post deny, reply=NONE $taboo_virus_subject post deny, reply=NONE $taboo_subject post deny, reason="Not a valid mailing list" $taboo_to_header post deny, reply=NONE $addrcomment =~ /Mail Delivery System/i || $addrcomment =~ /Mail Delivery Subsystem/i || $addrcomment =~ /virus/i post deny, reply=NONE $addrcomment =~ /Policy Filter/i || $addrcomment =~ /Forum Access/i || $addrcomment =~ /DrWeb-DAEMON/i || $addrcomment =~/Content Filter/i post deny, reply=NONE /mailer-daemon/i OR /virus/i OR /listserv/i OR /postmaster/i OR /mdaemon/i post deny, reply=NONE $host =~ /^svr1.postgresql\.org$/ AND NOT @ post deny, reply=NONE $host =~ /^forum\.postgresql\.org$/ AND NOT @ post deny, reply=NONE $dup post unset=dup_checksum, unset=dup_partial_checksum ALL subscribe deny /@uol.com.br/ ENDAAB ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Marc, > Hell no, and fairly easy ... we have a slew of them right now ... for > more details, look at the access_rules documentation, but here is what > is in place right now across all lists ... I even have one in place for > the @uol.com.br like you requested ages back ... if its not working, > though, I'll look into the 'why', as its possible I have ordering wrong: Unfortunately, it's not working. We have 3 uol.com.br people subscribed right now, I know because I got all their bounce messages. ;-b -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:42:38AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Marc, all: > > First off, I'd love to see some unsubscribe links available at > www.postgresq.org/community/lists. Currently you have to drill > down via the archives to get to the unsub links; this confuses a lot > of users ( I know I didn't find it on the first try) and as a result > I end up fielding about a dozen "how do I unsubscribe" questions a > week. I get a few fewer. I've committed a change to template/en/community/lists.html that should make things a little clearer. > Second, (this is for Marc) I'd like to know what's possible in the way of > banning certain addresses from subscribing, either to specific lists or to > all lists. What I want to ban is: > 1) anyone from uol.com.br or other domains which use email-back security; Amen! > 2) certain people who cronically put on vacation notices without suspending > their subscriptions; Meh. > 3) users like the one today who sent me a profanity-filled request to > unsubscribe. Yes, she's really something else. :P Cheers, D -- David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote!
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: > Marc, > >> Hell no, and fairly easy ... we have a slew of them right now ... for >> more details, look at the access_rules documentation, but here is what >> is in place right now across all lists ... I even have one in place for >> the @uol.com.br like you requested ages back ... if its not working, >> though, I'll look into the 'why', as its possible I have ordering wrong: > > Unfortunately, it's not working. We have 3 uol.com.br people subscribed > right now, I know because I got all their bounce messages. ;-b 'k, what list? I just checked pgsql-announce, where they usually are, and nothing is there ... checked -general and -hackers to, nadda ... and I'm using 'grep -i', just in case its as something like UOL.com.br .. ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Marc, > 'k, what list? I just checked pgsql-announce, where they usually are, > and nothing is there ... checked -general and -hackers to, nadda ... and > I'm using 'grep -i', just in case its as something like UOL.com.br .. Announce. Craparooni, maybe they're using mail forwarding? I should have saved those. Will make a list next time I send an announce e-mail. In the meantime, can you unsubscribe Moniquechristien@cs.com and ban her from resubscribing? -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
Hi, On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:42 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > First off, I'd love to see some unsubscribe links available at > www.postgresq.org/community/lists. What about another form named "unsubscribe" which is similar to subscribe form and just has unsub option? Regards, -- The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.503.667.4564 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: PL/php, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: > Marc, > >> 'k, what list? I just checked pgsql-announce, where they usually are, >> and nothing is there ... checked -general and -hackers to, nadda ... and >> I'm using 'grep -i', just in case its as something like UOL.com.br .. > > Announce. Craparooni, maybe they're using mail forwarding? Would be my guess :( Makes it all the more fun, eh? :) > In the meantime, can you unsubscribe Moniquechristien@cs.com and ban her > from resubscribing? Done: subscribe deny /@uol.com.br/i || /Moniquechristien@cs.com/i ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664