On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, James M Galvin wrote: <snip>
> That is not to say that you can not "automatically" manage the exception > list. You just have to set it up. LISTSERV (and my service) has a > NOMAIL feature. I believe with all of majordomo, mailman, and Lyris you > can setup a "list" to be your exception list and then you configure the > real list to also look there when checking "permissions". Thus you use > ordinary subscribe and unsubscribe commands to manage the exception > "list". It's not integrated in that it requires the maintainer to set > it up, but once set up it will work. > > > In any case the penalty for getting > > it wrong is delay, not censorship (at least in the case of the IETF > > guidelines). > > Nope - the penalty is WORK for the moderator too. > > Agreed, but the work is once per email address if you add every > exception to the "authorized" list as you discover them. Once things > settle down there shouldn't be very much work. > > Jim there is also a work around for majordomo lists - if you "re-purpose" the .intro file - see: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/majordomo/secondary.html this is easier to manage than a second list, although this is passive for list members unless you announce it via the info file -- I just add secondary addresses as they occur -- users who want to declare a secondary would need to send email to owner-listname. - lel
