[Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying pas swords

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:12:07 -0400 
Barry A Warsaw <barry at digicool.com> wrote:

> Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, or too curmudgeonly, but my
> inclination would be to disable this by default, but allow a sys
> admin to turn it on if they want.

Precisely -- an option in Defaults.py that an admin has to go
actively looking for.  If set, VERP0ish options then appear on a
per-list basis for the specific configuration.

Sample reasoning:

  I have an announcement list and a discussion list.

  They have duplicate membership lists of ~50K members.

  The announcement list is low traffic -- few posts a week.

  The discussion list runs ~150 posts a day.

  I want to VERP the announcement list and share the
  bounce/unsubscribes between the lists (which should be automatic).

  I have considerable disk IO savings (the system is compleatly
  throttled by /var/spool IO contention) if I can bundle the RCPT-TO
  envelope sizes for the announcement list to something large and
  gain the VERP benefits from my low-load announcement list.

This of course is ignoring the human factors, which I may not
consider significant for my user base.

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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