[Mailman-Users] newbie question

[C. Jon Hinkle]

I have been "selected" to set up a Mailman system to communicate with
roughly 140 users.  I have exactly zero experience with this kind of
endevor, although I am not totally techno-challenged.

I need to set about 30 of the users to be able to post and reply at
will.  The rest should be able to post and reply, but with some limits. 
For instance, if someone posts something useful, we don't want 130
postings back to the list saying "Wow!  That's cool!"  Given the
user-level of many of the 110 with limited rights, such a scenario is
well within the realm of possiblity.  These are the same people who
reply to a Department-wide announcement by hitting the "Reply All"
button.

In any event, I can see from the List Admin manual that I can set up
moderators and they would have full rights and set the rest as users and
make their replies be moderated, but having 30 moderators seems
unwieldy.  For instance, who would actually moderate the postings from
the 110?

If I set first_strip_reply_to to YES and then set reply_goes_to_List to
POSTER, the reply would go to the original poster, but not to the entire
list?  Is that different than setting first_strip_reply_to to NO and
having the original reply-to be in force?

In either instance, how do I account for worthwhile replies that would
be beneficial for the entire list to see?

Am I taking the wrong tack here?  Is this better done with something
like default_member_moderation?  I could set the flag to off for the 30
and on for the rest and then set the action to Hold.  Then, if the
posting/reply was worth seeing on the list, it could be approved by a
single moderator, and if not then it gets rejected and the poster gets a
notice.

If this seems disjointed, it is because I'm making it up as I go along.
 Any guidance you can offer is appreciated.

TIA, CJon

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