Feature Requests item #560344, was opened at 2002-05-24 18:26 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=560344&group_id=103

Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: rich cowan (leftlink) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: List "styles" should be supported.

Initial Comment: Some feedback on mailman, which I have now been using for about 5 months:

-- The list type information is really misplaced in the mailman interface. If I want to decide if a list should be announcement-only, moderated, or unmoderated, this info should not be under a "privacy" section; it should be part of the fundamental general settings.

--The bug tracker should really have a category for "list setup/administration". This is very distinct from configuring the software on the server.

--So I'm requesting that this bug be moved to a new bug category, in fact. And that the "must posts be preapproved by an administrator" question be renamed to "what is the type of this list"? and that there be 3 choices rather than two:

• all posts must be approved by an administrator
• all posts must be from the administrator
• posts do not need to be approved

-rich

p.s. see http://democracygroups.org/mailinglisthowto.html for some definitions

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-05-25 03:11

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Thanks for the url, interesting article.

As to the specific bug report, the problem is that there really needs to be a way to specify a "style" of a mailing list. Currently, setting up an announce-only list means twiddling a bunch of disparate variables. That's not good, but it'll have to do for MM2.1.

So I'd actually categorize this as a feature request, and in fact, will move it to that tracker. Mailing lists should support common high-level styles or types. I'm also changing the Summary: of this bug accordingly.

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