I have ranted several times about Sourceforget's customised mailman allowing non-subscribers to post to mailing lists despite being configured not to. Cos I was *sure* I'd turned that option on.
Oops, it was turned off. I hate it when I'm the PEBCAK. Mailman is still hateful though. The user interface is that to turn a feature on or off you need to clicky on a button-ish thing, and then scroll the page and clicky on another button. That's bad. While it might be OK in some situations (like, say, when you're deleting a customer from a database) it's not acceptable in this case. What I had done, obviously, was do the first clicky and thought "right, I've turned that on" then hit a link to switch to another page of options, promptly throwing my changes away. FWIW, in my own interwebnet applications, I don't use radio buttons, I have links which the user clicks to immediately submit their choice to the server. For forms with text fields, I also keep the number of options per page low so that a reasonable user won't have to scroll to find the submit button. It'll be right in front of him so it's more immediately obvious that he has to hit it. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend everyone equally, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, politics, choice of beer, operating system, mode of transport, or their editor.
