[Mailman-Users] Anonymous posting

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Fred Hicks wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> 
> > Ricardo Kustner wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:51:16PM -0600, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> > > > "xxxlist-anonymous at spamneggs.org".  The list-admin can find out who
> > > > really posted in case of maliciousness, but no one else can.
> > > > Is there some way to provide the moral equivalent in Mailman?
> > >
> > > yep... you can violate the RFC's ;)
> > > Privacy options... last line
> > > "Hide the sender of a message, replacing it with the list address"
> > >
> >
> > <g>  Yeah, I saw that.  But I'm looking for a way for members to be able
> > to select that option themselves, either for all their posts, or on a
> > post-by-post basis.
> 
>   Create a second list, which anonymizes posts.
> 

OK, xxxlist-anonymous...

>   Subscribe the first list to the second list.  Make sure your second list
>   does not send out monthly password reminders.
> 

I understand part B here, but I'm not sure about A.  Wouldn't
subscribing xxxlist to xxxlist-anon mean that members who signed up for
xxxlist-anon would only get the anonymous posts?  Or is that the point?

Or am I just being obtuse?  

>   Mission accomplished, I'd think.
> 

<list-admin-of-very-small-brain>-ly y'rs,
Ivan
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