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[Steve Shipway <address@concealed>]

>>> Bonus question: is there a reasonable way to make a list mostly
>>> unmoderated?
>> We've done this by adding a "moderated" custom field and testing its
>> value in scenarii.
>...
>| moderated_subscriber        | enum('true','false') | YES  |     |false   | 
>      |
>
>...
>match([subscriber->moderated_subscriber],/true/) smtp,smime,md5     
>->editorkey

OK, so you added an extra column to the subscribers table?  I thought you 
meant that you did it by adding a custom_attribute to the mailing list, and 
then checked against that.  Probably adding a custom attribute (with an ENUM 
type) would be more portable than modifying the table?  Then you could just 
use...

match([custom_vars->moderated],/true/) smtp, smime, md5 -> editorkey

... and have the list custom var defined ...

custom_attribute
enum_values true,false
comment Is this subscriber moderated?
name Moderated
type enum
optional required
id moderated

... although, having thought about this, it would still allow the user to 
change their own moderation flag, which may not be desirable.

Something for the wishlist of Sympa 6.2 would be subscriber custom vars with 
(a) a default value, and (b) that are read-only to the subscriber (IE, have 
optional/required/readonly where the third case can only be set by the list 
admin).  I might try coding this up if I have time once I've ported our other 
plugins to 6.2.

Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
address@concealed
Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487