Re: [Evolution] Problem with lists.ximian.com ???

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:35 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:13 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:14 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:55 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > > > > > Received: from headcheese.ximian.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by
> > > > > >         lists.ximian.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C231D124917; Tue,
> > > > > >         11 Jan 2005 06:13:16 -0500 (EST)
> > > > > > Received: by lists.ximian.com (Postfix, from userid 38) id
> > > > > >         D6BB112437D; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:15:54 -0500 (EST)
> > > > >
> > > > > It looks like lists.ximian.com has some choke point.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, and it's likely called "subscription required". ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Every now and then posts by non-subscribers are approved and the queue
> > > > gets flushed, but that needs to be done manually. There are quite a few
> > > > mails from mid December making its way to the list recently...
> > >
> > > Would it be better to configure * lists ximian com so that it
> > > does not allow non-subscribers to post?
> >
> > no, because then we get flooded with spam.
>
> Why would *not* allowing non-subscribers to post get the lists
> flooded with spam?

sorry, misread. this is already how we have it configured.

Jeff