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

I'm happy to.

But...

Could you provide guidelines for implementing it?  If it is not too 
far-reaching, I would either attempt it or ask one of our volunteers to.

Since I don't think it's been entered yet, I will do so, and add the 
description of the Mj2 implementation.

(I realize I could also repurpose the blacklist for this, but its 
original purposes are still valuable.)


On 10/6/09 8:12 AM, Olivier Salaün wrote:
> Roger, Marc,
>
> Can you please contribute in our feature/bug tracking system, 
> otherwise I can't promise we'll remember these details when we have 
> some time to code ;-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roger B.A. Klorese a écrit :
> > On 10/5/09 2:52 AM, Olivier Salaün wrote:
> > > 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.)