[lug] Mailman question

[Hugh Brown]

Within Mailman you can set a list to be moderated requiring that every subscriber post is moderated.  You can then go in to the subscribers list and unset the post moderation bit.

All the subscribers can still post, they just have to be approved.  When a post comes in to the list it gets put in a holding queue and a notice is sent to the admins to take care of "pending requests."  Once the request is approved the queue is empty.

Mailman can do a variety of things, I'd decide how you want the list to run and then you can likely get Mailman to do it.

Hugh

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:30:55AM -0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> In the context of what you are suggesting, I guess only moderators can
> post to the list.  Everyone can post but their postings don't get sent out
> to the list until approved.
> 
> Not having used mailman, I'm not really familiar with the interface.
> Guessing from your comment, it seems that there is a queue of messages for
> moderation.  If that's true then a moderator would take something off the
> queue and approve or reject it.  Another moderator would "visit" the queue
> and not see previously processed entries.
> Is this right?
> Chip
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:59:40AM -0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > I'm looking at mailman to manage a list that I run.  One of the biggest
> > > problems that I'm facing is wanting to have multiple moderators and avoid
> > > forcing them to coordinate between themselves as to which message they
> > > sent and which they didn't.  
> > > 
> > > My original idea was to have a single gmail account and have the
> > > moderators log into that one.  The problem though was that my current list
> > > requires customized headers.  No problem in pine but not really possible
> > > in gmail that I could see.
> > > 
> > > Is there a decent way to solve this issue?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > > Chip
> > 
> > Are the moderators the only folks that can post to the list?  If so,
> > you can have everyone subscribe to the list, set everyone to moderated
> > except the moderators.  When a moderator sends a message from her
> > subscribed account, it goes straight to the list.  The moderators will
> > have the responsibility to take care of the admin queue which will
> > gather up all the posts from moderated subscribers and non-subscribed
> > folk.
> > 
> > Hugh