This setting tells Lyris to deny subscription requests and
postings from these people. If a banned person tries to join your mailing list,
they will be rejected.
This feature works by matching the
text patterns that you specify, matched against the entire From: line that
includes both the person's email address and their name.
If any text pattern matches, the
person is banned. For example, if you wanted to ban all members from
"trouble.com", you would type:
trouble.com
If you wanted to ban the email addresses
"jane@troube.com" and "bob@trouble.com" you would enter
these email addresses on two separate lines:
bob@trouble.com
jane@trouble.com
If you wanted to ban a person named "Jane Trouble"
and "Bob Mischief", you would type:
Jane
Trouble
Bob Mischief
Note that this would ban any person whose name is matched,
regardless of their email address.
Lyris can also do "negative
bans" as well. This means that it will ban anyone who does not match the
text pattern you specify.
For example, if you run a corporate
mailing list, and you want anyone from your company to be able to join, you
could ban anyone who's email address does not contain "@mycorp.com".
The "not contains"
feature is activated by placing a tilde, a "~" at the beginning of
the line. In the above example, to ban everyone except email addresses from
"mycorp.com", you would type:
~@mycorp.com