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

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:38 PM +0900 2006-01-03, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>  My reason for proposing that as default, though, is that if somebody
>  requires bigger fonts or smaller screen, then really, shouldn't
>  somebody with good eyes or equipment volunteer for that burden?

	I don't think you can make that assumption.  Many people are just 
barely getting by on their own, and we've even got a lot of hosting 
sites running Plesk or crap like cPanel or MacOS X Server, or with 
heavily customized "normal" Mailman configurations, and yet they get 
absolutely no site administrator support at all.

	Any default change like this would have to be something that a 
list moderator could configure for themselves, without any 
intervention on the part of the list administrator, and especially 
without any intervention on the part of the site administrator.

>  But I would expect that those with even mild impairment would
>  self-select out of that job on average.

	When you're in a ghetto and no way out, when the power & gas 
company starts sending you invoices that are not intelligible and 
your heating bill goes up by a factor of ten in a single month, what 
do you think people are going to do?

>      Brad> 	From everything you've said, I think you would like
>      Brad> Skip's mmfold.py script.  I think you should check it out.
>
>  I already do like it.  Most of the moderators I know don't have the
>  necessary shell access, though.

	All you need is shell access somewhere.  It does everything over 
HTTP, so it doesn't have to be run on the server where the list is 
hosted.  That should make the job a lot easier, albeit still not as 
simple as pointing their existing favourite web browser at the 
appropriate admindb page.

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