Charles Marcus wrote: >Mark Sapiro, on 12/7/2007 4:33 PM, said the following: >> >> Here's what I would do. >> >> Make them list members with delivery disabled, password reminders off >> and a random password. >> >> Set them to receive acknowledgement of posts. >> >> Then they won't receive any posts from the list, but they will be able >> to post and will receive acknowledgement from the list that their >> posts were accepted. > >Hey! Hmmmmm, let me think about this... Yes, I think this will work! >Oh... wait... > >How would this work in conjunction with the new functionality provided >by this patch: > > > I think you mean > > http://tinyurl.com/3xxdhk > > This patch allows specifying the name of a list (say list2) in list1's > > accept_these_nonmembers so that members of list2 can post to list1 > > even if they aren't members of list1. > >Would I be able to set up a 'vendors' list, that just acts as a >container for all of the vendors, set each members options as you >described above, then put this list name in the other lists >'accept_these_nonmembers' field, and have it 'just work'?
No. That won't work. For the above to work, the vendors have to actually be members of the list they are posting to. I also just realized that a 'vendor' who is a member of a list can request a password reminder, and can thus get her/his password and change options. >Remember, the 'vendors' list will not be a functioning list - the >members of that list will be posting to one of two other lists, each of >which expands to about 4 lists total internally - my lists are nested, >by the way - some contain only other lists as members, some contain a >mix of lists and individual members. Since you are already using 'umbrella' lists, what if the vendor list were a super-umbrella. Maybe this requires multiple vendor lists in your case, but it's a thought. Also, the new sibling list feature in Mailman 2.1.10 might be useful in this regard. The vendor list could have the 1 or 2 umbrella's in its 'regular_include_lists'. Then posts addressed to the vendor list will go to the members of the include lists too. It's kind of the other side of the accept_these_nonmembers coin. You can think of it as a better way to do umbrella lists, but you still have the issue that a vender list membor can probably obtain his/her password and enable delivery, but at least he/she only gets vendor list posts (that still may be bad). -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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