[Mailman-Developers] should i be able to set a default accept_these_nonmembers?

[Adam McGreggor]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:00:54PM -0500, Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
> I recently had a request to make it so a Mailman domain I had setup
> would include a default set of email addresses in the
> accept_these_nonmembers field of each list.  I thought it was a
> reasonable request as these people are responsible essentially all
> things in that domain.  Default.py and mm_cfg.py are not currently setup
> to allow this.
> 
> Does anyone think this is a reasonable feature request?

Yes, and no.

Yes, in that I can see some advantages/cases where it may be useful to
this, but no for a couple of reasons/prejudices:

    (a) if something's worthy of a list's attention, the poster
        should have the courtesy to be a member of the list (assuming
        these are other people, not, say, functional aliases, or
        whatever);
    (b) i'd imagine this may be a case of cross-posting. Which
        infuriates me. (How about having one list for everyone that
        needs to be on it, and if appropriate send *those* list's
        messages to other lists?)

In my instances, after creating new lists, i subscribe a series of
address (+ trusted domains) to the list -- or rather my list-creating
and configuring script does that for me (I like to do some
customizations with withlist: and am quite lazy.).


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