>>>>> "kalin" == kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kalin> my point was/is that the 'members_posting_only' is supposed kalin> to be for members ONLY but it's not... As I understand the word "post" it implies delivery to the list members. So this option is doing what it says: preventing non-members from posting. Your point seems to be that you think of the word "post" as simply submitting mail to the list, and Mailman should do what _you_ need it to do, which is discard the "illegal" messages that it doesn't send to the list members. That is an important goal of the project: to make Mailman do what list owners want it to do. So, whose opinion is more important? Well, the _first_ thing that mail software should do (by default) is _not lose mail_. That's why the default setting is to _hold_ mail, not discard it. Mailman should _never_ discard _any_ mail automatically until the list owner tells it to do so, using a very explicit word like "discard" or "reject" or "delete". After all, you can throw away the unwanted posts later--- but if I got the opposite surprise I would have lost mail forever, I can't get it back. In the case of 2.0, that was an earlier version, the default setting was the only setting. This was found to be insufficient, and that's why 2.1 has the new configuration options. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp