[ale] Reply-To controversy: a solution

Joseph Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 21 08:47:40 EDT 2003


"Michael D. Hirsch" <mhirsch at nubridges.com> writes:

> On Monday 21 April 2003 03:01 am, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joseph Knapka
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:26 PM
> > >
> > >  (3) Change the configuration of ale at ale.org to accept posts
> > >    from nonsubscribers
> >
> > That is a dangerous thing to do.  An alternative would be to have
> > the ale-no-reply-to at ale.org members subscribe to ale at ale.org as
> > normal users and to set the no-mail flag for them.
> 
> I like this alternative.  Maybe we could even hack the registration page to 
> do this automatically, i.e. anyone signing up for the ale-no-reply list 
> would also get registered for ale list with the no-mail option selected.

I'm working on a fix for this problem. Basically, I'm adding code that
tells Mailman, "treat list A as if everyone on list B were subscribed,
for post-approval purposes". This is about a ten-line change to the
Mailman source, I think.

Cheers,

-- Joe Knapka
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