On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:29:04 -0400 Ron Jarrell jarrell@vt.edu wrote:

At 12:15 PM 9/22/99 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:

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The differences from a "real" list would be that no mail aliases would be created and config.db would contain a flag indicating that this is a proposed list rather than an instantiated list. The benefit of this approach is that very little would have to change in the rest of MailMan. All the normal admin and configuration interfaces would work just as per normal without a single line of source having to be touched, modulo the following exceptions:

listinfo and admin would have to be touched to either not list proposed lists, or to list them seperately from the real lists.

Why a new flag? Just create it as a hidden list.

That would work as well, except that users can then see that it is hidden and unhide it. Not Good. Using the method I propose (flag addition), the user sets his list up exactly the way he wants it and the admin then merely installs the aliases and removes the flag.

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