option to send mail but disallow posting
Hi gang. Beginner Mailman question here.
Is there a subscription option which allows receipt of all list emails, but disallows some members from posting? It would need to be something that is Admin settable, but cannot be changed by the subscriber.
I understand that I can put these folks on moderation and then delete any attempt to post, but I would rather have a hands-off method.
This Mailman installation will be hosted by DreamHost, so I do not have access to command-line tools.
Michael Welch, volunteer Redwood Alliance PO Box 293 Arcata, CA 95518 707-822-7884 mwelch@redwoodalliance.org www.redwoodalliance.org
Michael Welch wrote:
Is there a subscription option which allows receipt of all list emails, but disallows some members from posting? It would need to be something that is Admin settable, but cannot be changed by the subscriber.
I understand that I can put these folks on moderation and then delete any attempt to post, but I would rather have a hands-off method.
You're half way there. You set them moderated, set the list's member_moderation_action to Reject and provide appropriate text in member_moderation_notice. These are on the Privacy options...->Sender filters page in the admin interface.
This Mailman installation will be hosted by DreamHost, so I do not have access to command-line tools.
Not a problem. This is all done through the web admin interface.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote at 06:31 PM 09/19/2007:
Is there a subscription option which allows receipt of all list emails, but disallows some members from posting? It would need to be something that is Admin settable, but cannot be changed by the subscriber.
I understand that I can put these folks on moderation and then delete any attempt to post, but I would rather have a hands-off method.
You're half way there. You set them moderated, set the list's member_moderation_action to Reject and provide appropriate text in member_moderation_notice. These are on the Privacy options...->Sender filters page in the admin interface.
Thanks, Mark. Seems like that would prevent me from being able to moderate other participants that do have permission to post, but must be baby-sat.
So, unless there is something else, I guess I am stuck with putting them on the list moderated, and hand-rejecting their posts.
Allowing non-posting list members would be a good feature request.
The way we dealt with this on Topica was to have them view the archives online which obviously had to be made public.
P.S. Still looking for a regexp wizard to help delete Topica body footers and ads from the emails in my mailboxes.
Michael Welch, volunteer Redwood Alliance PO Box 293 Arcata, CA 95518 707-822-7884 mwelch@redwoodalliance.org www.redwoodalliance.org
Michael Welch wrote:
Thanks, Mark. Seems like that would prevent me from being able to moderate other participants that do have permission to post, but must be baby-sat.
Yes it would. With current Mailman, you can't have both.
So, unless there is something else, I guess I am stuck with putting them on the list moderated, and hand-rejecting their posts.
Yes.
Allowing non-posting list members would be a good feature request.
I'm not sure how much interest there would be. My feeling is that for most lists, the choices of moderating some or all members to be able to review their posts, versus moderating members to prohibit posting as for an announce list is sufficient.
You could consider a second list which is a member of the first list and has as it's members, the people who should receive list posts but not be able to post. You could then set the second list as announce only with all members moderated and unable to post. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.069.htp> for more info on setting this up. Also, since the first list wouldn't be an umbrella per se, you would need to set the second list's options on its membership on the first list to not receive periodic password reminders. This is an imperfect solution as anyone can still go to the member options login page for the second list's membership of the first list and request a password reminder which will be sent to the second list.
The way we dealt with this on Topica was to have them view the archives online which obviously had to be made public.
Public archives are an option with Mailman too.
P.S. Still looking for a regexp wizard to help delete Topica body footers and ads from the emails in my mailboxes.
I don't know about the ads, but the footer is introduced with a line that begins with a few '-' followed by a '^' followed by more '-'. Something like
---^-----------------------------------------------
It shouldn't be hard to match that - i.e. ^-{3}\^-{47}$ for the line above.
Also, you might be interested in <http://veenet.value.net/~msapiro/scripts/Topica_Archives.py> (mirrored at <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/Topica_Archives.py>) which will extract posts from a Topica archive into mbox format with minimal headers (From:, Date: and Subject:) and no ads or Topica footers.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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