[Mailman-Developers] Re: Cute TMDA use

J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:01:17 -0700


On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:25:33 -0600 
Jason R Mastaler <Jason> wrote:
> J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:

>> No more problems with posters from non-subscribed addresses.  They
>> have a subscription to _GET_ mail and to define an allowed posting
>> address.  They can (trivially) define additional allowed posting
>> addresses by just posting from them and confirming the post to get on
>> the whitelist.

> Yup.  One thing I also do is share an auto-whitelist among all the
> lists on my server.  So, if claw@kanga.nu confirms his post to
> tmda-users, he'll instantly be able to post to tmda-workers as well.
> This makes things even more transparent for the end-user, particularly
> at sites hosting many lists.

True.  There are cases where I don't want this however, and its proving
rather a bitch to make a non-shared whitelist hang off a shared
configuration (in my case a shared procmail RC).

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?		  
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.