[Mailman-Developers] moderating with umbrella lists

[Nathan Neulinger]

I don't know how to do this with the base Mailman, but I did submit a
patch that makes it real easy. It basically adds the ability to say
"allow any members of list X to post to list Y". In the 'list of
non-member...' and other similar boxes, it allows you to put
'+ at listname' to include the membership list in the box. It's dynamic, so
it doesn't have to be updated when you add members to other lists.

We'll be using this heavily when we migrate from ListServ since the
lists here make heavy use of the send option and specifying other list
names. 

As far as I know, nothing was ever done with the patch though. 

-- Nathan

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:56, Marisa Riviere wrote:
> I am running mailman 2.1.2.  I needed to update to this version
> in order to have the option for:
> 
>  "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically"
> 
> working to allow users from my system to write to a set of lists
> without moderator's approval.
> 
> My expression to filter users is:
> 
>   ^.*@stat.umn.edu
> 
> Now that this works I am experimenting with "umbrella" lists.
> I set up the -owner option in all lists, umbrella list and
> sublists. Mail from people from my domain "cascades" well trough
> all the lists but mail from people from other domains which
> require moderator's action for the initial umbrella list
> seems to require moderator's action as well in all the sublists.
> 
> I understand from the documentation that I can set up the lists
> in a way such that once I approve a messages from a user who is
> not in the .stat.umn.edu domain for the umbrella list, the
> messages should "cascade" to the others because of the CC and TO fields.
> 
> But I can not get this to work!  What am I doing wrong?   
> 
> Bellow is a description of my settings.
> 
> In a set of lists nested as:
> 
>             umbrella
>            |         |
>    umbrella1          umbrella2
>    |       |          |        |
> people1   people2     people1   people2
> 
> 
> I set in all lists the -owner notification option and include the
> sublists as members. In each sublist I have the field:
> 
> "Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the
> acceptable alias names, specified below)? "
> 
> set to "Yes"
> 
> I also set the umbrella list(s) names for each given sublist in:
> 
> "Alias names (regexps) which qualify as explicit to or cc destination
> names for this list. "
> 
> For example in the list called "people1" which
> 
> For example in the list called "people1" which
> is a sublist of umbrella1 and umbrella2 this looks like:
>    
> ^umbrella1 at stat.umn.edu
> ^umbrella2 at stat.umn.edu
> ^umbrella at stat.umn.edu
> 
> I also did a try with
> 
>  ^.*@stat.umn.edu
> 
> and without the ^ character, etc. etc. I hope I may be having a problem
> with how I define expressions for Phyton and I do not need to upgrade
> again!  --  ;) 
> 
> Can any one please help me?  Thank you.
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