Fwd: majordomo nomail trick

I got a couple things this week from an electronic
acquaintance who turns out to be a majordomo hotshot.

The first is an answer that may be worth the abiword
developers' while, if only to save themselves more
queries about Gmane and nomail. The second is permission
for me to forward the first, plus an amplification of it.

I hope these are helpful. I never do webmail if I can
possibly help it -- I hate webmail passionately -- but
have to be sending this from here. So I apologize if
the formatting is messed up.

------------First forwarded message---------------

>majordomo seems for some reason a lot harder to tell to
set a
>subscription to nomail.

 In the majordomo scheme of things, one is either subscribed
or not.
 However, lists can be configured to accept messages from
addresses
 found on other lists and/or a dedicated whitelist. This
enables
 people to post without receiving, which is equivalent to
nomail mode.

 Yes, majordomo out of the box has many shortcomings, so
I've added many
 of the best features of other MLMs, like Gmane and
LISTSERV, such as
 archiving, attachment handling, spam proofing, searching,
RSS feeds,
 etc.

---------------Second forwarded message-----------------

I made a web-based GUI for editing "accept" lists, but a
listowner can also create a separate mailing list that
serves no purpose but to be a list of addresses that may
post to another list without receiving it, if you follow
me.

    # restrict_post [restrict_post] (undef) <resend>
    # If defined only address listed in one of the files
    # (colon or space separated) can post to the mailing
list.
    # This is less
    # useful than it seems it should be since there is no
    # way to create these files if you do not have access
    # to the machine running resend. This mechanism will
    # be replaced in a future version of
    # majordomo/resend.

restrict_post = dpfnne:dpfnne.accept
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Received on Sun Nov 5 22:51:34 2006