[Mailman-Developers] confusing post requirements policy

[Scott]

for an example of how this would work, go to
http://chronis.icgroup.com/mailman/admin/test

password is testme

and play with it.  there is one less question to answer, it seems much
more clear, and all the possibilities of the poster_includes_members
setting are there.

for those of you who aren't running code from the cvs sources, you can
compare it to

http://mailman.pobox.com/cgi-bin/admin/testdrive
password testme

it seems much cleaner to me, and i'll make the appropriate changes if
people seem to agree.

scott


On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 04:10:35PM -0400, Scott wrote:
| do you mean everyone or all subscribers?  lets do both, as an exercise ;)
| 
| to allow all people, subscribers or not,  to post to a list except
| viega@list.org:  
| 
| set member_posting to no 
| set moderated to no
| add viega@list.org to forbidden_posters
| 
| to allow all subscribers to post to a list except viega@list.org
| set member_posting to yes
| set moderated to no
| add viega@list.org to forbidden_posters
| 
| perhaps member_posting could be more aptly named something else, but
| the current suffix "_only" implies that the variable posters is
| ignored when in fact it is not.
| 
| scott
| 
| 
| 
| On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 01:06:28PM -0700, John Viega wrote:
| | Can you clear up how I would say: "everyone can post execpt viega@list.org"?
| | 
| | 
| | John
| | 
| | On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 03:56:22PM -0400, Scott wrote: Recently i
| | > added an option to mailman to make it so that the list of posters
| | > that are allowed to post sans approval would or would not include
| | > the list members automatically.  I have several lists using this
| | > option, and just discovered that a good deal of confusion was
| | > created over the fact that there are 3 interrelated questions on the
| | > admin cgi (and corresponding variables) that could be summed up in
| | > 2: 1) variable member_posting_only.  2) variable posters 3)
| | > posters_includes_members currently, there is not only confusion, but
| | > a problem.  specifically, if member_posting_only is set, posters has
| | > some addresses in it, and posters_includes_members is set to yes,
| | > then it doesn't allow posting from non members in the posters list.
| | > It seems like it would be much more clear if there were 2 variables:
| | > member_posting (in place of member_posting_only and
| | > posters_includes_members) posters if member_posting is set to true,
| | > the addresses in posters gets added to the subscriber list to form
| | > the list of all approved posts. if member_posting is set to false,
| | > the addresses in posters are the only ones that can post without
| | > approval.  this seems much simpler and more clear to me.  how do
| | > people feel about this?  scott
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