[Mailman-Users] Human orinted interface
Harald Meland
Harald.Meland at usit.uio.no
Fri Oct 16 16:21:13 CEST 1998
[Jean-Bernard ADDOR]
> We have not finished the installation yet and I don't know what
> happen if a message is crossposted on many lists, but I strongly
> hope it will be send to a multiple subscriber only once.
I doubt it. In order for that to work, Mailman would have to have:
* a way of detecting when a message is posted to several Mailman
lists. Today the "post" commands for the various lists are started
by the MTA, and lead entirely separate lives.
* a way of deciding _which_ of the MTA-started "post" commands should
send the message to the multiple-subscribed address.
A way of doing this would be to have a global database over what
message-ids (a message-uniqe ID, not necessarily from the Message-Id:
header. Determining this id is not necessarily trivial) that have
been sent to what addresses. The first list to process a new
message-id for anyt given address, enters the message-id/address pair
into the database, thereby blocking any other "post" commands from
sending that message to that address.
Personally, I think this would be rather kludgy (to say the least).
But, while we're on the subject of interprocess communication: I have
some lists consisting of sublists, and I would like all of them to be
moderated. Is there any (moderation-safe) way of saying "Once a
message has been allowed onto the superlist, don't ask for
confirmation from the sublists"?
--
Harald
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