Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking few features for listadmin
This is a tough one. The best way to handle it, is simply lay down the law and remove admins who break your rules. In addition to that, you can write a script that checks on list configs regularly and reports any changes to you. You can also have the script set any values back to your preferred defaults for each list, and send a warning note to the admins of the list. A harder option is to edit the source code so that some values are not displayed in the Web-admin. Those options would have to be set by the system admin via the command line tools. ...Actually, I just looked at the source code for the admin cgi and you can easily put in an over-ride for any web-admin chosen variable. So if they wanted to change the size of an allowed email, it would look to them as though they could change it, but whatever value they choose would be over-ridden when posting. A static value compiled into the admin cgi would be very easy, and it wouldn't be too hard to have a value dumped in via a text file or database. Hope this helps - Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: sunny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:46 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Blocking few features for listadmin I am running mailman ver 2.08 on Solaris 8 with multiple listadmins the problem some listadmin's are changing The list admin's email address and also Maximum length in Kb of a message body to 0 which is choking the servers. Can i customize the mailman so that these fileds will not be available for the list admin to change. Regards DK __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking few features for listadmin
On 4/10/02 8:58 AM, Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a tough one. The best way to handle it, is simply lay down the law and remove admins who break your rules. I've had a couple of fights over this one. It's convinced me to create a formal terms and conditions document outlining rights and responsibilities of a list admin. Unfortunately, dinking with reply to is one of those things that is forcing that issue, because I have a specific site-wide standard, and once in a while, I have an admin who won't accept that (more often, they don't remember, and it's unfair to yell at them because they don't memorize the rules I don't have written down anywhere). I had that discussion again this week, in fact. So I'm going to formalize out a document explaining what the standards are, and what the expectations for a list admin are. And violations like tweaking frozen values cause admins to get locked out the frist time, repeated violations will get an admin replaced or the list shut down. Right now, I'm working on the trust you to cooperate mode, and while 95% of them do just fine, that's just not good enough, and the fights that entail with that other 5% just aren't constructive. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ Very funny, Scotty. Now beam my clothes down here, will you? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Blocking few features for listadmin
I am running mailman ver 2.08 on Solaris 8 with multiple listadmins the problem some listadmin's are changing The list admin's email address and also Maximum length in Kb of a message body to 0 which is choking the servers. Can i customize the mailman so that these fileds will not be available for the list admin to change. Regards DK __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
