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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:21 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     BAW> I find that my typical approach is to scan the summary,
>     BAW> opening any potential ham
> 
> I assume you mean "ham = on-topic, spam = off-topic, possibly but not
> necessarily UCE"?

In this context, yep!

> Our lists don't have a topicality problem, so I don't think I've ever
> had need to open a post.  The summary subject invariably shows spam
> vs. ham.  

Often, but not always.  I probably find myself tricked about 10% of the
time. ;)

> Unfortunately, you can't open a subscription request.  I
> know, the text doesn't show much in most cases, but we could look for
> header forging.  I don't understand why this distinction was made;
> would it cost resources to give access to the subscription requests?

Probably not.  I'm sure there was a "good" reason buried in history, but
it's not a bad idea to revisit this.

-Barry

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