On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:34 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:28:50 -0400 > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:30 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > > > banning/suspending a user from a mailing list. They would retain the > > > right to receive the mail, just not comment for a short period (and > > > hopefully cooler heads will prevail, yada, etc.). > > > > You mean the privilege to receive the mails, right? > > > Actually, not exactly :) Not knowing anything about the particular list > management software we're using, of course, and basing this only my > experience with other mailing lists and our own (ancient) listserv's > here at work, users can be placed in read-only status, which means they > can't post to the list, but still receive the mailings. Possibly not > feasible with out particular list implementation, but something I > thought I'd toss out there.
Well, mlmmj doesn't have this sort of feature. Instead, it has a more procmail-like access list. We can use that to put users into a read-only status, by filtering for them and denying posting from them, but that still doesn't change my opinion that participation on the mailing lists, including *receiving* mails, is a privilege, not a right. Currently, it is a privilege that we extend to anyone, and we have not revoked it except in dire circumstances. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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