On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:19, Nancy S wrote: > Jon wrote: > > > >I don't think anyone on Mailman-dev wants to encourage the bad practice > >of allowing folks to be subscribed without their approval (except by the > >list admin), so don't look for this feature to be changed in MMv3. > > This may be slightly off this particular topic, but I run several mailman lists with > the options: > o) Administrator approval is required for all subscriptions > o) No confirmation is required for subscriptions > > These are relatively "closed" communities of nontechnical people, where the > administrator has tight connections to the subscribers and there is some "offline" > or "unstructured" confirmation that occurs outside of Mailman itself. > > The problem I've been having is that there doesn't seem to be a way for the LIST > ADMIN to change a subscriber's e-mail address without a confirmation (unless one > goes through a subscribe/unsubscribe which risks changing user options and the user > password). For these particular communities we really do not want confirmation > required -- and if it's not required for the initial subscription, why is it > required for the address change? >
That's a nice feature and a good justification for it. I'll forward that along to the MMv3 list and see if folks like it. It almost trivial to write a command line tool that would change an email address inside the list database. The harder part will be adding it to the Admin's web form. Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
