Nils Vogels wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:54:13AM -0400, Scott Courtney wrote:
> > I don't mean any disrespect to your views, but I'm still unable to come up with > > any non-spam reason for blocking unsubscriptions. If someone can think of one > > that I've overlooked, I'll gladly stand corrected. :-) > > One other issue that I have, where the feature might come in handy is this: > > Imagine this: I've got a nested mailinglist, like this: > > mailinglist1 > - user1 > - user2 > - mailinglist2 > - user3 > - user4 > - mailinglist3 > - user5 > - user6 > - user7 > > Should anyone use the option 'lost password' option for maillinglist2, they would > be able to get the password to control options such as unsubscribing, since > they know the address the posts go to. For obvious reasons, I /really/ do not > want that ... a possible solution is to make the top-level list an "umbrella" list. you can specify special requst handling for these lists (i.e. all administrative msgs can be sent to <subscribed_addess>-owner instead of just <subscribed_address>. that would imply you must not have real subscribers on the top-level list, but that should be acceptable. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
