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[Patrick Rynhart <address@concealed>]

On 10/12/2013 9:13 p.m., Steve Shipway wrote:
> Our users need to be able to initialise list membership before the list is 
> approved, which includes manual additions and testing of external 
> datasources.  So, we need to be able to do 'add's before the list is open.

But is this a "need" or a quirk that you've found in Sympa and are 
making use of ?  (The phrase "It's a feature, not a bug" springs to mind.)

For the case you're subscribing, it sounds as though an additional 
"state" is needed after approval but before the list becomes active. 
Something like "list ready to be populated but not yet live".

It seems to me that you shouldn't be able to start subscribing people to 
lists which may be rejected by a listmaster, or may need to be renamed.

Thanks,

Patrick