
Just as a bit of an FYI -- I've mentioned in the past that I'd like the ability to "lock down" certain list configuration options based on site-wide standard. Having this feature has become more interesting to me, since I just has a 'situation' where it would have been really useful.
I had a list admin decide he wanted to change reply-to to the list. This, despite being told not to change things. So he did. And it got involved in a situation where stuff was posted to the list (by me, in fact) that shouldn't have been because the list was configured different than everything else on the system. And that led to the "why can't we have this?" fight, and it led to a private argument with the list admin (who actually changed it twice), and all sorts of unhappiness.
And one of his arguments, of course, was "if you don't want this changed, why do the pages let me"?
Don't worry, my hair will grow back. Well, maybe.
But take this as a real-world case where splitting out content admin from list admin from site admin and allowing the folks higher up in the hierarchy to delegate or freeze what sub-admins can do. Because while it's nice to think everyone will play nice and follow instructions, in the real world, it doesn't always happen.
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:18:16AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
While built in support in mailman would be nice, in the meantime, it's not very hard to reset all the settings to the approved defaults every 10mn or so with config_list
Marc
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:18:16AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
While built in support in mailman would be nice, in the meantime, it's not very hard to reset all the settings to the approved defaults every 10mn or so with config_list
Marc
Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key
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