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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Matt,

Le 22/10/14 11:22, Matt Taggart a écrit :

David Verdin writes:

As a matter of fact, I wonder if it would be useful to simply add a
reserved address for owners in Sympa. After all, the software could
perfectly give this feature out of the box. Any listmaster needs to
contact list owners from time to time.

The problem is that probably a lot of people already use such a list.
And a lot of people might have a copletely different list called "owners"

So maybe we could create a parameter - yes, yet another - that would
contain the local part of the list to contact list owners - and mlaybe
alos another one to tell whether we should exclude list owners that
don't want to receive mails.

lists.riseup.net also has such a list, we call it 'listadmins' and use this 
query:

  SELECT distinct user_admin FROM admin_table a JOIN list_table l ON
     a.list_admin = l.name_list where l.status_list="open";

ie only mail admins of open lists.

I like Steve's idea of excluding admins with nomail set, although I can 
think of cases where I might want them to get mail anyway.

We obviously restrict send access to the list and we also have forced 
moderation even for permitted senders. (ours is 21k subscribers, we have to 
be careful) If such a list were to exist by default, I guess it would be 
restricted to listmasters?

By default, yes. But, well, you could still edit the send scenario.

One other thing I thought of, would such a default list be per robot or per 
sympa install? (for lists.riseup.net it doesn't matter, we only have one 
robot)

I was considering per robot.
But...
I know some instances that grew to an outstandingly large number of robots, so maybe we could add a "whole instance" mailing list.

Regards,

David

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