[Mailman-Developers] Cute TMDA use
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@python.org
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:26:13 -0400
>>>>> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:
JCL> Nathan has already stated he's interested in some of the
JCL> legal CYA, and for that (I expect) he needs an explicit
JCL> decision at the time of first post, not first subscribe.
Ah. You know, Mailman is /almost/ there. You can set up a replybot
on receiving a message to the posting address. That plus quarantined
moderation nearly gets you there. The one bit that you'd need to add
is the actual explicit confirmation step.
JCL> Note; With an integrated TMDA setup such as I'm doing (versus
JCL> TMDA-like features in Mailman) this is fairly simple to
JCL> accomplish. You just don't point TMDA at your Mailman
JCL> configs as a source of valid email addresses.
>> BTW, cooler heads have prevailed. I'm not going to build this
>> into MM2.1, although I have added some notes to the TODO file.
JCL> Ahh. Damn.
I know, I know. I'd really like to see how the TMDA stuff pans out as
more people use it. I think rather than run headlong into adding a
feature at the last minute (so to speak), we can take a principled
look at how to improve and borrow things for the next Mailman release.
-Barry