On Sat, 20 May 2006, Barry Warsaw wrote:
[...] Another possibility is to extend Approve.py to accept multiple Approved: headers. [...]
OK-ish for techie-like posters. And probably OK for some sites. But for this particular environment at this site, the typical senders are senior university managers, not techies. Even assuming (a big assumption) that (politically) asking them to type ten "Approved:" lines was OK, what about error handling (e.g. two typos in that list? a typo in one of the instances of the "Approved:" word itself causing pw leakage to other lists? when they want (legimately) to post to other lists normally under a department's control? ...)
Thanks for the reply.
To me (admittedly a complete newcomer to Mailman) the proper solution seems to be in recognising the large commonality of my "authorised sender" query with the "todo" item about personal accounts and going from there.
(Also if I, a Mailman newcomer, start charging around in the middle of the code for a local, supposedly "quick fix" usage, I might inadvertently make all sorts of blunders, creating corresponding non-quick support issues.)
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