[Mailman-Users] Dumb question of the day

2005-03-05 Thread Don

Hi;

I'd like to set up a 'test' list for a couple people to see what
they will be working with to administrate a list.  It appears to
me that giving someone administrative privelages for a specific
list will not cause any security breech of the site itself.

Therefore, my 'dumb question' for the day is...

am I correct?

Is there any "reasonable" way for someone to mess up anything
outside of that specific list?

It appears that everything is safe... but I'd like to hear
that for certain from someone who KNOWS what they are doing
far better than I do.  Sorry if this is an irritation to
anyone.

Thanks
Don

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Dumb question of the day

2005-03-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Don wrote:
>
>I'd like to set up a 'test' list for a couple people to see what
>they will be working with to administrate a list.  It appears to
>me that giving someone administrative privelages for a specific
>list will not cause any security breech of the site itself.
>
>Therefore, my 'dumb question' for the day is...
>
>am I correct?

Yes

>Is there any "reasonable" way for someone to mess up anything
>outside of that specific list?

Not directly that I know of.

You have to trust them somewhat. They can do stupid things. As long as
they only subscribe themselves and maybe a few others, you are
probably OK. Consider though that they could subscribe a large list of
AOL addresses and send a message to which some significant fraction of
recipients clicks "this is spam" and then your site gets blacklisted
by AOL.

Or, they could set up a large list with "reply to list" and create a
huge mess of "stop sending me this" messages going back to the list
which can bring your server to it's knees and get you blacklisted as
above.

These things are unlikely, and if you're only talking small test list
and just mistakes and not maliciousness, you're probably fine.

>It appears that everything is safe... but I'd like to hear
>that for certain from someone who KNOWS what they are doing
>far better than I do.  Sorry if this is an irritation to
>anyone.

Doesn't hurt to be careful.

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