Dongsheng Song sent the message below at 07:24 PM 8/13/2006: >I have a private maillist, maintenance manually. Can I forbid anyone >auto subscribe/unsubscribe ? > >Tanks for some help ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
There is a philosophical issue behind this that you need to really think about when making your decision on how to set up a list. Are you currently using the mailman mailing list software? If so, you can control these things through the subscribe_policy and unsubscribe_policy settings on the Privacy Options page of the web interface. You can set subscription to require moderator approval or to require both approval and confirmation. In your case, I think you would just want to set it to approval only without the confirmation. While you can set the unsubscription policy to require moderator approval, I really think that this should only be done in very limited circumstances. The only legitimate reason I can think of to do so is if this were a list maintained by an employer for the purpose of conducting internal business and certain employees were required to receive the correspondence from that list as part of their job duties. In any other case I can think of, the unsubscription policy should be set to allow users to unsubscribe at will (the "no" setting). Think about how you would feel if you were in a position where you joined a list and then could not leave it when you wished. It is a rather unwelcome and unfriendly thing to do. I run a few small lists, there are a couple of public ones open to anyone who wishes to join and there are a couple of private ones requiring moderator approval for subscription. None of those lists requires approval to leave, anyone is free to stop receiving mail at any time from those lists and this is how it generally ought to be. Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp