On 11/21/07, Iain Buchanan wrote: > hmm. owner == administrator? I assumed owner was <listname>[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > or is this just a redirect to, eg. me?
The owner is/are the registered owner(s) of the list, per the Mailman configuration. The term is synonymous with administrator, yes. > Any suggestions? Should I make the owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > similar? So, you want all the moderators to get the moderator mail, but you don't want to get any of the moderator mail as default owner of all the lists? Problem is, I think there may be other stuff that is also sent to the list-owner that you would need to see, and which the moderators would not be able to do anything about even if they did see it. So, I don't think you can just toss all this stuff in the bitbucket. I imagine you might be able to make a source-level change to the moderator process, so that all mail that would normally go to both the moderator(s) and the list owner(s) would instead go to just the moderator(s), but I do wonder how much of a risk that would be. > Can any other "admins" comment on what they do? Surely someone else > admins a whole heap of lists too? I can also set up mail filters, but > ultimately I would like to stop it at the source. For the python.org lists, we don't really tend to have separate list owners versus list moderators. The same people do both jobs, and for most lists I don't think there are any specified moderators (as separate from the list owners, I mean). This includes all the mailman-* mailing lists that are hosted on python.org, although I will soon be setting up a separate group for handling these things and we'll actually have real, live separate moderators for all these lists, in addition to the list owners. Yes, I'm the primary active postmaster and mailing list administrator for python.org, but we're trying to bring some more people online to help address that single-point-of-failure issue. For the lists we run for the NTP Public Services Project over on ntp.org, I have a central listmaster@ alias that is the registered owner of pretty much all lists, and certain designated people get those messages. I don't know what anyone else does with them, but I try to deal with all the moderator stuff as soon as I can, although I do make sure to turn off immediate notices so that I usually only have to check once a day. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
