[Mailman-Developers] Future: Safe Auto-moderated Announce List
John W Baxter
jwblist@olympus.net
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:30:24 -0800
I see the basic "how do I let the right people post to this announce list
automatically" question often enough to indicate that there is a perceived
need.
Let's put digital signature technology to work.
For some post 2.1 release (and probably patchable into 2.1 by suitable
people), extend the privacy options to include:
List (two columns...duplicate senders probably allowed for the case of a
work key and a home key or an assistant's key for authorized forging, or
whatever):
Automatically post messages from these senders PROVIDED they are
digitally signed using the key listed for the sender.
Checkbox:
Automatically and silently reject (with logging) any message not from a
listed sender and properly signed.
Variations (not silently rejected, etc, if desired...but sending a
rejection message gives the would-be rogue poster information).
It seems to me that this can be turned into a suitable solution to the
auto-moderated announce list desire, without a whole lot of coding.
I didn't see such a feature request on SourceForge...if I missed it I
apologize (I've spent no more than 15 minutes driving SourceForge).
--John (whose site has about 5 lists which would benefit from this feature)
OA (Obligatory acronym): SAMAL
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John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA