[Mailman-Users] Administrative roles?

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 25 May 2000 22:44:08 -0500 
David Champion <dgc at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Are there any plans to implement administrative roles in Mailman
> such that we can have all we've ever wanted?  Presumably this
> would be predicated on a notion of a "user", although, as in SNMP,
> it would suffice for the "user name" and authenticator to be the
> same thing.  If no roles, what about another site-admin password
> level which gets you read-only, or gives you access to existing
> lists/users, but not the ability to add/remove users?

This has been discussed, and agreed in general to be a Good Idea
IIRC.  It just needs someone to take it on and do it, much like the
SQL backend needs someone.

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