Feature Requests item #224744, was opened at 2000-12-06 10:43 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=224744&group_id=103

Category: configuring/installing Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Don Porter (dgp) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: disable List-Post for broadcast list

Initial Comment:

There are problems using Mailman for "broadcast lists" -- those lists where only a few people are authorized to post messages to the list. For those lists, it is desirable to remove all references to posting messages in the instructions seen by list subscribers. The general list information page can be rewritten to achieve this, but the welcome message also includes these instructions and cannot be customized.

With more recent releases of Mailman, the problem is made worse with the addition of a List-Post: header, which indicates to subscribers that their posts are welcome. They are not. Mailman needs additional configurability to suppress these invitations to post to the list to better support broadcast lists.

Comment By: Bob Weissman (bweissman) Date: 2002-05-16 09:39

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I have a working patch for this for Mailman 2.0.10. It adds a new attribute "add_extra_list_headers" to each mailing list, with default 1 (Yes). The toggle for this appears on the main admin page for each list.

This controls 5 of the 6 List-* headers: Id, Help, Unsubscribe, Subscribe, and Post. It does not control List- Archive, on the assumption that is still useful for archived lists. I wrote it this way because I have lists which I do not want subscribers self-administering (they are sync-ed with a master membership database for my organization). It would be a simple matter to change this to add one parameter per header, but I didn't need that.

Anybody want this?

Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2001-10-11 11:59

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I fully agree with this, and have the same difficulties.

Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-03-02 16:13

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I think the addition of a 'read-only list' would be a good idea, myself. Moved to feature request. Patches welcome, of course (forgive me if there is already a patch for this, I'm trying to catch up ;)

Comment By: Dustin Mitchell (djmitche) Date: 2001-02-01 11:52

Message: This is a much-needed feature for our installation as well. Perhaps the addition of a 'Read-Only List?' configuration option?

I'm willing to draw up and submit a patch for this, but I'll wait until I hear desire from a developer before I do this.

Dustin

Comment By: Don Porter (dgp) Date: 2000-12-07 08:53

Message: See also

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2000-September/006431.html

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