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HOWTO Deal With Spam as a Mailman List Owner

Dealing with SPAM e-mail is a real hassle. Dealing with SPAM e-mail as a mailing list owner is an even bigger hassle. Here are some tips for dealing with SPAM e-mail on mailing lists using the Mailman software package.

The Symptoms

Unless you are making your users as well as yourself miserable, you’ve probably set the “Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined” to “Hold”. I believe this is the default setting for new lists.

\"Hold Nonmember\" Setting in Mailing list administration -> Privacy Options -> Sender filters

Hold Nonmember setting in Mailing list administration, Privacy Options, Sender filters

 

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2008 07 16 Comments (0)

Fronting Tomcat with Apache HTTPD to Remove Ports and Context Paths

In this How-To guide, I show a combination of software and configuration to clean up URLs by removing the port numbers of the Java servlet engine (Tomcat) and the context path of the application. The goal is to create “cool URLs” that are are short (removing the unnecessary context path) and follow conventions (using the default port “80″ rather than “8080″). OhioLINK also uses a custom access control module — built for Apache HTTPD — which makes the fronting of Apache HTTPD for Tomcat even more desirable.

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