Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Sapiro m...@msapiro.net To: Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com; Mailman-Users@python.org Sent: Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List Geoff Shang wrote: And of course unmoderate the list admin and anyone else you want to be able to post. This is not good

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:17 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Howver, thinking about it further, there's one thing I don't like about it. It's OK if the people posting are list admins or moderators, but if you have othwers who should be able to post to the list, you don't necessarily want to give

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Message - From: Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com To: mailman-users@python.org Sent: Friday, 18 December, 2009 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:17 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Howver, thinking about it further, there's one thing I don't like about

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's better to post using the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's better to post using the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Just to be clear, the presence or absence of an email address in the owner or moderator attributes of a list has nothing to do with who can do what. It only controls where notices are sent and what appears in web page footers. It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Just to be clear, the presence or absence of an email address in the owner or moderator attributes of a list has nothing to do with who can do what. It only controls where notices are sent and what appears in web page footers. It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: Is there any way to nullify the moderator password altogether? Does submitting the passwords page with an empty field for the mod pw accomplish this? You can't remove a moderator password through the GUI. You could always enter some obscure string that you will

[Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Wayne Cook
Here's my first post to this list :) I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? Thanks Wayne -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:11:22PM -0600, Wayne Cook wrote: Here's my first post to this list :) I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? http://wiki.list.org/x/3YA9

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Wayne Cook wrote: I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/3YA9 for how to set this up. If you want this to be the default for newly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Wayne Cook wc...@mycoachonline.com wrote: Here's my first post to this list :) I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? Thanks Wayne Change the list configuration so that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Barry Finkel wrote: I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? Change the list configuration so that all subscribers are moderated. And then set each

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Shang wrote: And of course unmoderate the list admin and anyone else you want to be able to post. This is not good advice. Everyone should be moderated and posters should use an Approved: password header to post. Otherwise, it's too easy for an unauthorized poster to spoof an authorized