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  • From: Serge Aumont <address@concealed>
  • To: Chris Andrews <address@concealed>
  • Cc: "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
  • Subject: [sympa-users] Re: FERPA, witness protection and toatl non disclosure users
  • Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:18:16 +0100

Chris Andrews a écrit :
We have a number of users that are marked as total non-disclosure users here
at Boston College. It would be nice to be able to flag a user globally as
only visible to list owners. I know a user can go in on a list by list
basis and set this flag, but that could be time consuming and in the mean
time we violate FERPA.

I could write a script that would look those users up and then using a SQL
command change all the non-disclosure people to visibility_subscriber =
"conceal", but that would leave the email address visible for a short time.

I could create a database trigger, but I am not that l33t in SQL and I would
rather not do that.

I could add something to the add a subscribe routines in Sympa to make the
change if the user was non-disclosure, does any one know where in the Sympa
code I should look to add this functionality?
You can block anyone except the list owners to review subscribers by adding a new scenario rule to any review scenario. Just create a file named include.review.header with the following rule :

!is_owner([listname],[sender]) smtp,md5,smime -> reject

This rule will be applied first to any scenario.

Where to locate this file ? This is described here :
http://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/authorization-scenarios#location_of_scenario_file

Serge Aumont



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