[Mailman-Developers] On allowing any list member to be an email moderator

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 12:15 -0500, R. Bernstein wrote:

> ***If I have this correct, where GNU mailman seems to differ from say
> sourceforge bug and feature trackers is that in GNU Mailman where
> there is a password associated with a moderator and an administrator
> *account*, in sourceforge tracker, there is a moderator or
> administrator *flag* is associated with a account(s) to grant
> access. So to moderate or administer an account one uses one's
> selected user account and password. As a result, is easier to effect
> such an enforcement described above.

Yes.  This sucks about Mailman, and it's something we plan to fix in MM3
by having a real user database. ;)

-Barry

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