On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:51:34 +0100 Russell, D (Duncan) said:
>Hi all,
>
>A quick query, in the site managers manual, there seem to be two
>contradictory entries regarding what happens to a post from a non-subscriber
>to a moderated mailing list.
>On the one hand section 13.3.1 states that non-subscriber mail will be
>rejected, whilst section 14.1 says that non-subscriber mail would be
>moderated. Can you confirm that the latter is true, it seemed to work when I
>tried some quick tests but would like confirmation before telling my list
>owners about this.

You are correct.  I think I typoed in the manual in 13.3.1.  Of course
the messages sent to a list with Send= Editor would be moderated.

>Whichever is true is there a way of switching between the two, there doesn't
>seem to be any way of coding e.g. "send= private, editor"     or is there ?,
>or alternatively "send= public, editor".

In a case like this I think I would use

* Send= Private
* Default-Options= Review

and then set everyone EXCEPT the editors/moderators to REVIEW (all subsequent
new subscribers would automatically be set to REVIEW).  This effectively
rejects non-subscriber posts and sends all subscriber posts to the editor
for approval.

You may be interested to know that LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L are both

* Send= Public
* Default-Options= Review

which works similarly to avoid random spam getting on the list...it's a bit
of work for me because I have to vet all new subscribers, but I'd rather
do that than listen to the screaming when spam gets through :)

Nathan