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[Steve Shipway <address@concealed>]

David wrote:
>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.

I would not want this to be automatically created; there are simply too many differences in the way people work, and it is easy (once you know how) to set it up yourself. 

The many differences include -
- what name to give the list of owners?
- what would be the default posting scenario?
- would it be for all robots or per robot?
- would you exclude 'nomail' admins?
- do you exclude closed lists?
- do you want to include editors?

So, I think it would be good to provide an example of ways to do it, but not add this by default, as there are simply too many options on how to achieve it and it you're unlikely to please most people!

I like Mike's idea of using a join and excluding the non-open lists; I hadn't thought of this addition.  I'll probably make the change on my implementation.

Steve

Steve Shipway

University of Auckland ITS

UNIX Systems Design Lead

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