--On 6 June 2006 22:02:44 -0700 Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
I agree, but which is the best term to use? Reading the dictionary entries for "approve" and "accept", I think I like the former:
Actually, both terms are used on the radio buttons on the admindb page. "Accept" is used for held posts, and "Approve" is used for (un)subscription requests.
We could of course change the name of the held message radio button to "Approve", but then we'd have an inconsistency with "Add poster@example.com to one of these sender filters:", and if we changed that, would we also want to change the name of accept_these_nonmembers?
It seemed simpler to me to just make the template change I indicated in my prior reply.
While we're here, can we change all instances of "reject" to "bounce". Mailman deals with queued messages, so it isn't capable of rejecting a message in the SMTP sense. All it can do is generate bounces - which are probably collateral spam.
Even better would be to integrate Mailman into MTA's better, so that the MTA can use Mailman data to reject spam.
-- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex