On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:45:16 -0500
Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really want to augment the approval workflow with email.
> There's a lot of people for whom moderating through the web is a
> pain (myself included :). I don't think it would be too difficult
> to come up with a workable email moderation scheme.
<nod>
I've been looking at this, and have loosely come to the following
design:
-- MessageIDs are used to uniquely identify held mesasges, and are
used in commands to manipulat manipulate the held queue. Of
course that means that Mailman will have locally generate and
add messageID's to any messages received without them (not a
big problem).
-- Moderator commands are just messages sent to the -request
address and targetted at the MessageIDs, something like (using
the messageID of the message I'm replying to as an
example):
approve [EMAIL PROTECTED] password bubba
reject [EMAIL PROTECTED] password bubba
All text found until next recognised command or "QUIT"
command is used as reason for rejection. QUIT processing is
necessary for those cases where the MTA adds a signature to
evern message (eg my lawyer's system adds a disclaimer to
every outbound message).
discard [EMAIL PROTECTED] password bubba
-- A couple simple extentions of the above allow more useful
features. First, to get a copy of a message held on the queue:
send [EMAIL PROTECTED] password bubba
Second, to post an edited copy of a message, just resend the
edited version of the held message back to the list
(bounce/redirect) with an Approve: <password> header:
Approve: bubba
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To: some_list@domain
Subject: testing
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:37:30 -0800
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is the edited message which will be posted. Any message
found in the queue which has the same messageID as this
message will be silently deleted. Prior to broadcasting this
message, Mailman will replace the Approve: header with the
following header:
X-Moderated: This message has been edited by the list moderator.
This sentence marks the end of the replacement edited
message that would be broadcast to the list.
--
J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
--=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
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