[Mailman-Developers] sender-based authorisation

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:15 PM +0100 2006-05-19, David Lee wrote:

>  My understanding is that to get this email straight through using the
>  "Approved:" mechanism all those lists (i.e. their superset) would
>  currently need to share a common password.  (I haven't seen documented the
>  ability to have multiple one-per-list, "Approved:" lines.)

	If you wanted to send to all of those lists with a single 
message, that's probably true.  However, I think that's also a 
sub-optimal way to send a message to mailing lists.  If nothing else, 
I think it's really ugly for all recipients in all lists to get a 
complete list of all the other lists that were recipients of the 
original message.

	You could resolve that with an umbrella list, but I'm not sure 
where the list approval mechanism comes into play in that situation. 
Moreover, if the subset of lists the poster wanted to send to 
changed, then you'd have to create a new umbrella list, which would 
be a pain.


	I'm not sure there is a good/easy solution to this part of the 
problem, although it is probably mostly just cosmetic.

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