[Mailman-Developers] Changing the default_moderation_action has no effect on existing members

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Nov 25 17:41:31 CET 2014


Aurelien Bompard writes:

 > I suggest we leave the member's moderation_action on None when it's
 > created, and modify the moderation rules to go look for the list's default
 > setting if the member's value is None.

I think this is a bad idea.  From the subscriber's perspective, it
changes the list's behavior with no action from her, for no good
reason that she knows.

The semantics of these variables is, and I think should be,
initialization, not fallback.



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