[Mailman-Users] Non-member posters - receive copy of their email as confirmation?

[Charles Marcus]

Mark Sapiro, on 12/7/2007 4:33 PM, said the following:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> We have two lists that we use that outside vendors post to (they are the 
>> 'non-member'), where the members are our Sales Reps. I'd like for the 
>> non-members to get a BCC (preferred, CC would be OK) of their message 
>> when they post.

> I assume that you don't want these people to be able to see other
> people's posts.
> 
> Here's what I would do.
> 
> Make them list members with delivery disabled, password reminders off
> and a random password.
> 
> Set them to receive acknowledgement of posts.
> 
> Then they won't receive any posts from the list, but they will be able
> to post and will receive acknowledgement from the list that their
> posts were accepted.

Hey! Hmmmmm, let me think about this... Yes, I think this will work! 
Oh... wait...

How would this work in conjunction with the new functionality provided 
by this patch:

 > I think you mean
 > http://tinyurl.com/3xxdhk
 > This patch allows specifying the name of a list (say list2) in list1's
 > accept_these_nonmembers so that members of list2 can post to list1
 > even if they aren't members of list1.

Would I be able to set up a 'vendors' list, that just acts as a 
container for all of the vendors, set each members options as you 
described above, then put this list name in the other lists 
'accept_these_nonmembers' field, and have it 'just work'?

Remember, the 'vendors' list will not be a functioning list - the 
members of that list will be posting to one of two other lists, each of 
which expands to about 4 lists total internally - my lists are nested, 
by the way - some contain only other lists as members, some contain a 
mix of lists and individual members.

Thanks for the suggestion! I hope it will work as you described...

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Best regards,

Charles