[Mailman-Users] Can users create mailing lists on their own?

Scott D. Allen sallen at infomanage.net
Tue Oct 3 20:12:42 CEST 2000


agreed. i'm just answering the question about users creating their own
lists. i would also like that type of checks-and-balances, but some people
just want to setup something in a dev environment.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:chuqui at plaidworks.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:08 PM
>To: Scott D. Allen; 'Victor Tsaran'; 'mailman-users at python.org'
>Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Can users create mailing lists on their
>own?
>
>
>At 1:48 PM -0400 10/3/00, Scott D. Allen wrote:
>>not from the web interface. if you gave them access to the 
>mailman uid, or
>>setup a script of your own, you could have them run the 
>newlist command
>>under an effective uid or similar.
>
>but that still doesn't set up the mail aliases or wire the list into 
>the system. IMHO, I *want* an admin in the loop for list creation, 
>since you have to tweak things that can really break the system if 
>you don't know what you're doing.
>
>Imagine automating all of that, and having a user create the lists 
>root and postmaster....
>
>-- 
>Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui at plaidworks.com)
>Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq at apple.com)
>
>You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.
>
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