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The Science Which Tom Uses to Bother Us #

by why in inspect

And he needs to bother us. Because our Rubyforge mailing lists are full of pending messages. If you run a project mailing list, then you probably got a message today philliping your nose, prodding you to clean your list’s spam folder.

Tom has posted the code to his automated harangue on his brand-new blog. You can bet that this is where all the best Ruby+GForge hacks will be unearthed. I know I’d really like to see the script that automates the Gems repository.

said on 12 Sep 2005 at 20:46

our Rubyforge mailing lists are full of pending messages

Yup, it’s gone from 313 MB to 153 MB today… good times!

the script that automates the Gems repository

The Gems guys would have to weigh in there… I don’t touch that stuff for fear of breaking the ever-popular “gem install rails” :-)

said on 12 Sep 2005 at 22:05

I know I’d really like to see the script that automates the Gems repository.

The guts is done by the “generate_yaml_index.rb” script that is included in the gem distribution. I think all RubyForge does is run that script in a cron job.

said on 13 Sep 2005 at 09:06

What I’d like to know is, is there some way to tell Mailman to automatically discard every incoming message automatically, instead of holding it for me to review? My lists are open to posting from subscribers only, and I’d just as soon throw away everything that it sent from a non-subscriber, and not have to deal with it. Period.

said on 14 Sep 2005 at 20:15

Hey Lyle -

Yup, if you go to “Privacy Options” and click on “Sender filters”, at the bottom of the page there’s a “generic_nonmember_action” option at the bottom of the page. Just select “discard” to get rid of nonmember postings. That’s what I do for my lists… Another option is the DEFAULT _MAX_DAYS_TO_HOLD which I talk a bit about here .

I added a note about this to my original blog entry, too, thanks for the idea!

said on 15 Sep 2005 at 10:16

Thanks, Tom!

said on 15 Sep 2005 at 15:37

No problemo! I should have included that in the blog post in the first place, ah well.

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