Hello Carl Zwanzig. On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:45:13 -0700, you wrote: > On 3/27/2018 9:52 AM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote: >> Hello David Elliott. On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:51:40 +0200, you wrote: >> >>> One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently >>> sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way >>> to prevent this but I can't find it! >> >> Set all members to "moderated", with the exception or those who may >> post to the list. > > Seems a bit harsh. Question is how you want the list to behave- to > facilitate discussion or simply to make announcements. If the latter > is preferred, then yes, setting all members to moderated will prevent > them from posting.
If a "reply ro all" results in a message post to the list (which is normal) and the list owner says this is unwanted - then I think it should behave as an announcement list only. Otherwise, the message post should be acceptable. There is probably no easy way to distinguish between wanted / unwanted messages, if it is a discussion list. > OTOH, if the list's purpose is discussion, moderating all members > becomes a bottleneck. Of course, moderating too many users in a discussion list is a bad idea anyway. > In that case, user training is often the best > route; explaining when it's appropriate to send to the list and when > it's not. And there will -always- be errors. (Scholars differ on > whether the default action should be reply-to-list or reply-to-sender > and there's nothing to be gained by trying to resolve that here.) On a discussion list, I would set default reply- to-list. Christian -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
