-When a message is posted to the list, a series of moderation criteria are
-applied to determine the disposition of the message. This section
-contains the modeation controls for postings from both members and
-non-members.
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default_member_moderation
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Member postings are held for moderation if their moderation
- flag is turned on. Note that only the list administrators can
- change the value of a member's moderation flag.
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-You can control whether new members get their moderation flag
- turned on or off by default when they subscribe to the list. By
- turning this flag off by default, postings by members will be
- allowed without further intervention (barring other restrictions
- such as size or implicit recipient lists - see below). By
- turning the flag on, you can quarantine new member postings to
- make sure that they meet your criteria for netiquette, topicality,
- etc. Once you determine that the new member understands the
- community's posting rules, you can turn off their moderation flag
- and let their postings go through unstopped.
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-E-newsletter style lists can also be set up by using the
- moderation flag. By setting the member_moderation_action
- to Reject, and by turning off the moderation flag for just
- the few approved senders, your list will operate in essentially a
- one-way direction. Note that you'd also need to reject or discard
- postings from non-members.
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member_moderation_action
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This is the action to take for postings from a member who's
- moderation flag is set. For typical discussion lists, you'll
- likely set this to Hold so that the list moderator will get
- a chance to manually approve, reject, or discard the message. For
- e-newsletter and announcement lists, you might want to set this to
- Reject or Discard.
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-Note that when a moderated member posts to your list, and the
- member_moderation_action is set to Hold, the message
- will appear on the administrative requests page. When you dispose
- of the message, you will be given an opportunity to clear the
- moderation flag at the same time. If you're quarantining new
- posts, this makes it very convenient to both approve a new
- member's post and de-moderate them at the same time.
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member_moderation_notice
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When a member's moderation flag is turned on and
- member_moderation_action is Reject, this variable
- contains the text sent in the rejection notice.
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-The next batch of variables controls what happens when non-members
-post messages to the list. Each of these accepts one email address
-per line; regular expressions are allowed if the line starts with the
-(caret) character. These address lists are always consulted in the
-order in which they're presented on this page (i.e. accepts first,
-followed by holds, rejections, and discards).
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accept_these_nonmembers
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Postings from non-members whose addresses match this list are
- accepted, barring other list restrictions due to size, implicit
- recipients, etc. You might want to add alternative addresses of
- approved posters to this list.
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hold_these_nonmembers
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Postings from non-members whose addresses match this list are
- held for moderator approval.
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reject_these_nonmembers
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Postings from non-members whose addresses match this list are
- rejected, i.e. bounced back to the original sender. There
- currently is no way to add additional text to the rejection
- message.
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discard_these_nonmembers
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Postings from non-members whose addresses match this list are
- discarded, with no bounce back message. You might want to add the
- addresses of known spammers to this list.
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generic_nonmember_action
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This variable controls what happens to non-member posts when the
- address of the sender doesn't match any of the above four lists.
- If you set this to Hold, the posting will appear on the
- administrative requests page, and you will be given an opportunity
- to add the non-member to one of the above four lists at the same
- time you dispose of the held message.
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forward_auto_discards
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When messages from non-members are discarded, either because the
- sender address matched discard_these_nonmembers, or because
- generic_nonmember_action is Discard, you can choose
- whether such messages are forwarded to the lsit administrators or
- not.
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