I also agree. In our environment users want to be able to create a
list without the involvement/delay of the mailman administrator.
Would very much like to see this as a feature of Mailman.
Thank you.
(Sorry if this does not meet up under the original thread. Have
included the reference text in case it doesn't)
Scott D. Allen sallen at infomanage.net
Tue Oct 3 15:12:42 EDT 2000
agreed. i'm just answering the question about users creating their own
lists. i would also like that type of checks-and-balances, but some people
just want to setup something in a dev environment.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:chuqui at plaidworks.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:08 PM
>To: Scott D. Allen; 'Victor Tsaran'; 'mailman-users at python.org'
>Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Can users create mailing lists on their
>own?
>
>
>At 1:48 PM -0400 10/3/00, Scott D. Allen wrote:
>>not from the web interface. if you gave them access to the
>mailman uid, or
>>setup a script of your own, you could have them run the
>newlist command
>>under an effective uid or similar.
>
>but that still doesn't set up the mail aliases or wire the list into
>the system. IMHO, I *want* an admin in the loop for list creation,
>since you have to tweak things that can really break the system if
>you don't know what you're doing.
>
>Imagine automating all of that, and having a user create the lists
>root and postmaster....
>
>--
>Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui at plaidworks.com)
>Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq at apple.com)
>
>You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.
>
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