Developers of Sympa

[address@concealed]

Adam Bernstein wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Serge.
>
> > This is not so easy. One think we must keep in mind is that some 
> > listmaster (address@concealed) may accept some list creation from a 
> > particular person but not from another one. That's why on our list 
> > server privileged owners are not authorized to add/edit other 
> > privileged owners so the initial list creator can't desapear from the 
> > list config unless he request for it to a human person.
> >
> > Change email feature should not be a way to change list owners in way 
> > that is not permitted by edit_list.conf
>
> As for that, we also long ago eliminated the difference between owners 
> and privileged_owners in edit_list.conf -- that was another source of 
> user confusion and served no real purpose.  All our owners are 
> effectively privileged now.  I understand the idea behind the 
> distinction, but I think it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
The problem exist and is a "long term" issue :  what  some service 
provider don't want is to accept a certain list and 3 years later the 
list is completely transformed : the subject, the subscribers and the 
list owners have change. The new list is something you would not have 
accepted. It's a real issue not completely solved with the current state 
of Sympa. Appling list families concept to all lists would help. It is 
one of the paned development.

Serge