
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:00:54PM -0500, Kenneth Raffenetti wrote:
I recently had a request to make it so a Mailman domain I had setup would include a default set of email addresses in the accept_these_nonmembers field of each list. I thought it was a reasonable request as these people are responsible essentially all things in that domain. Default.py and mm_cfg.py are not currently setup to allow this.
Does anyone think this is a reasonable feature request?
Yes, and no.
Yes, in that I can see some advantages/cases where it may be useful to this, but no for a couple of reasons/prejudices:
(a) if something's worthy of a list's attention, the poster
should have the courtesy to be a member of the list (assuming
these are other people, not, say, functional aliases, or
whatever);
(b) i'd imagine this may be a case of cross-posting. Which
infuriates me. (How about having one list for everyone that
needs to be on it, and if appropriate send *those* list's
messages to other lists?)
In my instances, after creating new lists, i subscribe a series of address (+ trusted domains) to the list -- or rather my list-creating and configuring script does that for me (I like to do some customizations with withlist: and am quite lazy.).
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