[Mailman-Users] Scheduled Administrative Option

[LifeTrek Coaching]

My large list (40,000 names) is announcement only and all posts are held (to
prevent the possibility of a spammer hijacking the list). So the "Schedule"
option is the only one that would work. Simply scheduling when I send the
post would not resolve the problem.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tokio Kikuchi [mailto:tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:13 AM
To: Brad Knowles
Cc: LifeTrek Coaching; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Scheduled Administrative Option

Hi,

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 10:46 PM -0400 2005-07-12, LifeTrek Coaching wrote:
> 
> 
>> When will you add a "Schedule" feature to the Tend to Pending 
>> Moderator Requests sections? Right now there are only 4 options 
>> (Defer, Accept, Reject, Discard). There should be 5 (Defer, Accept, 
>> Reject, Discard, Schedule). The Schedule feature would enable you to 
>> Schedule the distribution of a post for a specific date and time. 
>> This would be an enormous improvement to the list functionality. Let me
know. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 	That sounds like a good idea.  Please feel free to file a Request
For 
> Enhancement at 
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=350103>.
> 

Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary
scheduling.  You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so.
It would be easier to use your PC (Windows or Linux) to send a message in a
scheduled time.  May be you can send a message with an "Approved" 
header and a "confirm" command with the confirmation string in the hold
notice.

Cheers,
--
Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/