Hi All,
I manage a small (200 users or so) unmoderated Mailman list. So far so good.
I have naturally set a limit to which all posts are limited by post-size (in my case about 50k). This works fine and any messages sent to the list that are above the limit, are held for moderation.
I would like to have a couple of my members to be able to be completely unmoderated and hence be able to bypass this limit. I trust they won't send anything truly silly, however they send out regular information packs (around 2-300k) that obviously get caught by the system.
Is this possible in anyway, or do I have to make them in essence a moderator for the list??? They can then release their own posts.
TIA
Dan
On 3/16/06, Daniel Hawker <Daniel.Hawker@animal.co.uk> wrote:
I have naturally set a limit to which all posts are limited by post-size (in my case about 50k). This works fine and any messages sent to the list that are above the limit, are held for moderation. How, exactly, have you accomplished this?
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- Patrick Bogen
Daniel Hawker wrote:
I would like to have a couple of my members to be able to be completely unmoderated and hence be able to bypass this limit. I trust they won't send anything truly silly, however they send out regular information packs (around 2-300k) that obviously get caught by the system.
There is no way to do this via list configuration. You can set a moderator password if there isn't one already, and give the password to these people. If you don't want them to receive regular 'moderation' notices, you don't have to add them to the moderator list.
Once these people have the password, they can approve their own posts or they can pre-approve them by putting an Approved: header or first body line in the post they send to the list.
Of course, they can also approve/reject/discard any other pending moderator requests via the admindb interface.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Daniel Hawker wrote:
I would like to have a couple of my members to be able to be completely unmoderated and hence be able to bypass this limit. I trust they won't send anything truly silly, however they send out regular information packs (around 2-300k) that obviously get caught by the system.
There is no way to do this via list configuration. You can set a moderator password if there isn't one already, and give the password to these people. If you don't want them to receive regular 'moderation' notices, you don't have to add them to the moderator list.
Once these people have the password, they can approve their own posts or they can pre-approve them by putting an Approved: header or first body line in the post they send to the list.
Of course, they can also approve/reject/discard any other pending moderator requests via the admindb interface.
I've been looking for a way to do this for a while, what I came up with using current Mailman functionality is bascally moderating everyone except who you want to be able to talk. In most cases a broken solution, but hey - it works.
One could argue though that letting anything be automatically unmoderated on a moderated list is a bad idea, as email spoofing is one of the main vulnerabilities in Mailman, as well as.. erm.. SMTP? :)
In other words, I agree with Mark but it is *possible* if you are ready for some pain.
Gadi.-- 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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