I have been "selected" to set up a Mailman system to communicate with roughly 140 users. I have exactly zero experience with this kind of endevor, although I am not totally techno-challenged.
I need to set about 30 of the users to be able to post and reply at will. The rest should be able to post and reply, but with some limits. For instance, if someone posts something useful, we don't want 130 postings back to the list saying "Wow! That's cool!" Given the user-level of many of the 110 with limited rights, such a scenario is well within the realm of possiblity. These are the same people who reply to a Department-wide announcement by hitting the "Reply All" button. In any event, I can see from the List Admin manual that I can set up moderators and they would have full rights and set the rest as users and make their replies be moderated, but having 30 moderators seems unwieldy. For instance, who would actually moderate the postings from the 110? If I set first_strip_reply_to to YES and then set reply_goes_to_List to POSTER, the reply would go to the original poster, but not to the entire list? Is that different than setting first_strip_reply_to to NO and having the original reply-to be in force? In either instance, how do I account for worthwhile replies that would be beneficial for the entire list to see? Am I taking the wrong tack here? Is this better done with something like default_member_moderation? I could set the flag to off for the 30 and on for the rest and then set the action to Hold. Then, if the posting/reply was worth seeing on the list, it could be approved by a single moderator, and if not then it gets rejected and the poster gets a notice. If this seems disjointed, it is because I'm making it up as I go along. Any guidance you can offer is appreciated. TIA, CJon CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT This electronic communication is from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and is confidential, privileged and intended only for the use of the recipient named above. If you are not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this information to the intended recipient, unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately at the following email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by calling (816) 632-7276. Thank you. C. Jon Hinkle, Senior Epidemiology Specialist Division of Environmental Health and Communicable Disease Prevention Mo. Department of Health and Senior Svcs. 207 E. McElwain Cameron, Missouri 64429-1395 Phone: (816) 632-7276 Fax: (816) 632-1636 ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
