[James M Galvin: Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:40:44PM -0500] > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Joe Touch wrote: > > > These are destination-only addresses, used for forwarding. I tried this > with Mailman (presumably a "modern" application?), to which I had > subscribed touch@ieee.org; it held it for approval. My options as > moderator are: approve, reject, defer, or discard. No option for 'add to > list of approved senders' - that requires more steps, for ME (not under > the control of the sender). There are no options for the user to be able > to add or control aliases. > > Or is Mailman not modern? > > Mailman is modern. Like its counterparts you can have an "authorized to > submit but do not receive" functionality. I believe the issue you're > raising is that mailman, like its counterparts, does not have an > integrated means to manage the exception list. > I subscribe to a couple of different lists that (ab)use mailman's "temporarily disable delivery" attribute for this purpose. Someone with N addresses they'd like to post from simply subscribes to the list from all of them and sets the disable delivery flag on N-1 of them. Mailman seems to define temporary as "until I unset this attribute". No admin intervention required. -Patrick
