chiark / gitweb /
Disable auto-acks
authorMatthew Vernon <matthewv@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:30:50 +0000 (10:30 +0000)
committerMatthew Vernon <matthewv@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:30:50 +0000 (10:30 +0000)
ULM mods decided that the auto-acks (of receipt and acceptance) were
more annoying than they were worth, even though they were
opt-out-able. So disable this functionality (by the slightly cheeky
approach of adjusting the "does this poster want an auto-ack" function
to always say no).

stump/bin/submission.pl

index e49680f66b8b3ac28fa45f7b22b473a0b63de980..380adecd523d172ae2dcba1954823df7da21e011 100755 (executable)
@@ -133,14 +133,8 @@ print STDERR "Too many newsgroups\n";
 # checks if poster needs acknowledgment of receipt
 #
 sub checkAck {
-  my $fromaddr = $From;
-  $fromaddr =~ s/^[-A-Za-z]+\s*\:\s*//;
-  print STDERR "checking noack.list for \"$From|$fromaddr\"\n";
-  if( &nameIsInListExactly( $fromaddr, "noack.list" ) ) {
-    $needAck = "no";
-  } else {
-    $needAck = "yes";
-  }
+  #ULM mods want to disable this, so just return "no"
+  $needAck = "no";
 }
 
 ################################################################### checkPGP