[Mailman-Developers] Re: Integrating TMDA (was Re: Cute TMDA use)

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:02:25 -0600 
Jason R Mastaler <Jason> wrote:
> barry@python.org (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

>> If what you say is the case -- builtin support isn't terribly useful
>> without the shared whitelist -- then maybe it does make sense to
>> defer until a later Mailman version.

> Some users will not want to use a shared whitelist, but in my
> experience, the vast majority will.  I predict that if you add the
> feature without this sub-feature, it will become a nagging FAQ.

At its root its a privacy and entrance notification problem.  Its not so
much that the whitelist is private, but that entering it for discrete
list populations is a hard edged and published (to the list owner or
subscriber base) event, as distinct from the global whitelist.

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