[Mailman-Developers] Feature request

[Ian Eiloart]

Hi,

I had a complaint from a user yesterday that a listinfo page was 
misleading. It says something like "To post a message to all the list 
members, send email to foo at example.com", when the list in question is 
actually an announcement only list - so not even list members can do that.

Not such a problem, except that right above is the notice "To see the 
collection of prior postings to the list, visit the FOO  Archives.  (The 
current archive is only available to the list members.)". Now, this implies 
that the listinfo page is being smart about what people can and cannot do. 
Indeed it is smart about warning that subscriptions, archives, and 
membership lists are restricted - but not about posting.

It would be useful if the listinfo page could check whether non-members can 
post (generic_nonmember_action), and check for additional restrictions on 
postings (like default_member_moderation), and say something like:

"To post a message to all the list members, send email to foo at example.com 
(posts from non-members may|will be 
accepted|moderated|rejected|discarded)",

where accepted|moderated|rejected|discarded is the setting from 
generic_non_member_action and may|will is "will" iff 
accept_these_nonmembers etc, are not set. I guess that inspecting the list 
of *_these_nonmembers settings will give a list of possible responses to a 
non-member posting.

"To post a message to all the list members, send email to foo at example.com 
(permitted posters only)", as appropriate.


-- 
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS