Hi,
I had a complaint from a user yesterday that a listinfo page was misleading. It says something like "To post a message to all the list members, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]", when the list in question is actually an announcement only list - so not even list members can do that.
Not such a problem, except that right above is the notice "To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the FOO Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)". Now, this implies that the listinfo page is being smart about what people can and cannot do. Indeed it is smart about warning that subscriptions, archives, and membership lists are restricted - but not about posting.
It would be useful if the listinfo page could check whether non-members can post (generic_nonmember_action), and check for additional restrictions on postings (like default_member_moderation), and say something like:
"To post a message to all the list members, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (posts from non-members may|will be accepted|moderated|rejected|discarded)",
where accepted|moderated|rejected|discarded is the setting from generic_non_member_action and may|will is "will" iff accept_these_nonmembers etc, are not set. I guess that inspecting the list of *_these_nonmembers settings will give a list of possible responses to a non-member posting.
"To post a message to all the list members, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (permitted posters only)", as appropriate.
-- Ian Eiloart Servers Team Sussex University ITS
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