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["Roger B.A. Klorese" <address@concealed>]

On 10/5/09 2:52 AM, Olivier Salaün wrote:

address@concealed"> That's an interresting topic you raise and it sounds like a usefull feature indeed, therefore I suggest that you submit a feature request to keep track of this in <http://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23>.
Please detail your use case, along with how Yahoo feature works. Maybe Roger can complete with a description of Mailman's 'postblock" option.

Majordomo 2, not Mailman.

Each subscription (instance of user on a list) has a collection of flags, or boolean attributes, controlling whether they get acks of their posts, whether their address for an alternate address gets rewritten t the primary, etc.  One of these is called "postblock" -- while the actual behavior can be overridden by access rules like scenarios, the default behavior is that, for an unmoderated list, the user is treated as if the list was moderated, with their posts held for approval.

(The opposite solution, making the list moderated and having a post-without-moderation flag, has its merits too, but for different use cases.  The "postblock" use case is best for discussion lists where some users need to be monitored, permanently or temporarily.  The "post-without-moderation" case -- implemented in Mj2 by use of an auxiliary list of posters -- is used for announcement-only lists.  Implementing only that case would be unwieldy for, say, a 1000-person list in which you want to moderate two people; setting a "post-without-moderation" flag on the other 998 doesn't really seem the way to go.)