[Mailman-Developers] Approval system

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:08:37 -0800 
Jeb Bateman <jeb@ocha.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:50:45PM -0800, Dan Mick wrote:
>> textareas give you scrolling, which is useful when the message
>> you're rejecting has, for example, a 1MB MIME-encoded attachment.

> Except that Mailman already cuts the content down to a pretty
> short max size in the texarea anyway, so this would never be an
> issue...

The extent that Mailman excerpts the messages it displays is
configurable in mm_cfg.py (I set the limit to 1Gig so that messages
are generally not truncated).  The use of TEXTAREAs allows even a
larger number of messages to be presented for moderator review
withing a visually smaller and more easily navigable web page.

> Also, reading separate scrolling windows is cumbersome compared to
> scrolling the main browser window, and takes *more* screen space
> for very short messages, not to mention the difficulty in Lynx :(
> Most efficient could be a very concise:

I don't disagree -- I also prefer the previous approach, but
understand the more common-case reasons in support of the current
approach.  <shrug> Frankly, I currently SSH into my list boxes and
run XEmacs across all the held messages before hitting them with the
web moderation interface.  It sucks, badly, but it works (I do a lot
of editing of member posts on a couple of my lists).

I've been idly hacking on a patch which would make edits to a
message in the text area (given that the entire message was
displayed there) be effected on the final message that is cast (ie
moderators get editing rights).  Progress is slow tho as I've not
been able to spend much time on it (an hour every other week leads
to most of that hour being spent figuring out where you got to last
time).

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