[Mailman-Developers] sender-based authorisation

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:19 PM +0100 2006-05-19, David Lee wrote:

>  But then the potentially useful moderation-bypass "Approved: listpw"
>  mechanism has the problems of requiring many people to share a particular
>  list's password,

	Yup.

>                   and of the passwords across a cluster of lists having to
>  be common.

	I'm not convinced that's necessary.  Each list could have their 
own approval password, and there is no technical reason why they 
would need to share that password with any other list.

	That said, there may be operational reasons why you might end up 
going down this road, such as people not being good at remembering 
large numbers of passwords.


	Beyond that, I'm not sure that I can contribute much of anything 
more to this discussion.

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