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[Tornóci László <address@concealed>]

On 07/28/2014 01:19 AM, Steve Shipway wrote:
> If you have such a policy, then it might be better to implement it by
> the following step:
>
> * Create an 'include.send.header' scenario (either globally or
> per-robot) that has something like
>       is_listmaster([sender]) smtp,md5,dkim,smime do_it
>
> This should then automatically include the include.send.header rules at
> the start of *every* send scenario, and so any of your Senior Admin
> Staff (who are, of course, listmasters), will be able to post to any
> list, regardless of their other status or the posting scenario currently
> selected for that list.  You also have more fine-grained control
> available to you if you should want it.  For example, instead of
> granting the rights to Listmasters, you could set up a special list to
> hold your senior admin staff, and grant posting rights to members of
> that list (if you want to restrict the number of listmasters).
>
> Note that, since scenari can be overridden at robot level, you can use
> this method to make the behaviour apply on a per-robot basis, too.
>
> I think that this is a better way to explicitly grant people posting
> rights, rather than to have listmasters hardwired to have posting
> rights, since there are cases - such as at our site - where we do not
> want listmasters to automatically have unmoderated posting rights to all
> lists.
>
> As there is already a configurable way to continue to achieve the
> current listmaster-send-privilege effect, maybe this change does not
> need a switch in the sympa.conf or robot.conf files?
>
> Steve

Completely agree. I came up with a similar solution, but Steve's one is 
better than mine. By the way, I want to take this opportunity to say a 
big "thank you" to Steve. I find his contributions to this mailing list 
always very useful.

                                        Yours: Laszlo

> *Steve Shipway*
> University of Auckland ITS
> /UNIX Systems Design Lead/
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> //
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Roger B.A. Klorese [address@concealed]
> *Sent:* Monday, 28 July 2014 10:31 a.m.
> *To:* Chris Peck; Steve Shipway
> *Cc:* address@concealed
> *Subject:* Re: [sympa-users] Listmaster inherits all list owner
> permissions in Scenari
>
> Please make this configurable for the site or robot. It is our policy
> that our senior administrative staff must be able to post to every list
> we host.