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, *@university.edu

Send= *@*.another.edu, *@another.edu

…

Send= *@*.last.edu, *@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

 

 

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

 

 

To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list, click the following link:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1