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[Dan Pritts <address@concealed>]

a long-time annoyance of mine has been that I, as listmaster,
do not have rights to even VIEW the moderation queue for a list
unless i am listed as an owner or moderator.

I finally got fed up today and made a small patch to wwsympa.fcgi to
allow this, which I append below (i found the same basic logic 
in two different places; i did not trace down why, i just changed both,
but that seems suspicious).

my question is, why is it this way?  I found it in the documentation,
so it seems like a conscious design decision.  

danno
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Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer
Internet2
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ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs
July 11-15, 2010 - Columbus, Ohio
http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-oarnet/


--- wwsympa.fcgi.orig   2010-06-21 11:34:08.000000000 -0400
+++ wwsympa.fcgi        2010-06-24 00:29:13.000000000 -0400
@@ -2473,7 +2473,9 @@
                if $param->{'is_subscriber'};
            $param->{'is_privileged_owner'} = $param->{'is_listmaster'} || 
$list->am_i('privileged_owner', $param->{'user'}{'email'});
            $param->{'is_owner'} = $param->{'is_privileged_owner'} || 
$list->am_i('owner', $param->{'user'}{'email'});
-           $param->{'is_editor'} = $list->am_i('editor', 
$param->{'user'}{'email'});
+           # danno internet2
+           #$param->{'is_editor'} = $list->am_i('editor', 
$param->{'user'}{'email'});
+           $param->{'is_editor'} = $param->{'is_listmaster'} || 
$list->am_i('editor', $param->{'user'}{'email'});
            $param->{'is_priv'} = $param->{'is_owner'} || 
$param->{'is_editor'};
            $param->{'pictures_url'} = &tools::make_pictures_url('email' => 
$param->{'user'}{'email'}, 'list' => $list);
 
@@ -2713,7 +2715,9 @@
                if $param->{'is_subscriber'};
            $param->{'is_privileged_owner'} = $param->{'is_listmaster'} || 
$list->am_i('privileged_owner', $param->{'user'}{'email'});
            $param->{'is_owner'} = $param->{'is_privileged_owner'} || 
$list->am_i('owner', $param->{'user'}{'email'});
-           $param->{'is_editor'} = $list->am_i('editor', 
$param->{'user'}{'email'});
+           # danno internet2
+           #$param->{'is_editor'} = $list->am_i('editor', 
$param->{'user'}{'email'});
+           $param->{'is_editor'} = $param->{'is_listmaster'} || 
$list->am_i('editor', $param->{'user'}{'email'});
            $param->{'is_priv'} = $param->{'is_owner'} || 
$param->{'is_editor'};
 
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