Thanks Nathan,

--Joe



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From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:48 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: local= / service= local

Service= defines an area or areas outside which subscription requests are not accepted.  It has nothing to do with posting.

To restrict posting, I would be more likely to use something like

Send= *@*.university.edu<mailto:*@*.university.edu>, *@university.edu<mailto:*@university.edu>
Send= *@*.another.edu<mailto:*@*.another.edu>, *@another.edu<mailto:*@another.edu>
...
Send= *@*.last.edu<mailto:*@*.last.edu>, *@last.edu<mailto:*@last.edu>

That would restrict posting privileges to only addresses from those organizations.  Of course that doesn't account for the possibility of a From: address being spoofed, so I'd probably also tack

Send= Confirm

at the end if I wanted to force confirmation before allowing the post.  It sort of depends on what kind of a list you're talking about, I guess.

Nathan

From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of F J Kelley
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:38 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: local= / service= local


We have a few lists whose configuration includes a block of "local= " stmts:



local= *.university.edu,university.edu

local= *.another.edu,another.edu

...

local= *.last.edu,last.edu



After this comes



Service= local

Confidential= Service



The list I am having problems with right now also uses

Send= Public



(it is a list used to notify a group about certain problem which might arise anywhere)



And they are getting spam.  Of course neither the "From: " nor the "Reply-To: " are in the local list.  Does "Local" simply control the visibility of the list or can it filter addresses?  On rereading the site managers manual, it would not seem to be able to do the latter.

--Joe



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