GNU Mailman

Any way to allow posting privileges to any member of a set of lists?

Asked by bogstad

So, there is an free software project (SugarLabs) which has a number of lists managed by Mailman.
Occasionally someone will post to multiple lists simultaneously on a topic that crosses boundaries (lists) within the project. Sometimes I want to respond and select reply to all so everyone who saw the original note will see my response.
The result is a bunch of 'held for moderation messages' because I'm not subscribed to every list on the site.
As a personal workaround, I've figured out that I COULD subscribe to all the lists and just set 'no delivery' on the ones
that I don't want to read. This will let everyone who saw the original message see my response. It will not, however, allow me to see responses from people who aren't subscribed the lists I actually do read.

What would be nice is if there was some way to configure Mailman so a site admin could specify a set of lists such that if an address is subscribed to any of them then it can post to all of them. This would be kind of like the 'implicitly approved people' list option, but would be done automatically for a set of lists.

Is there any way to get this functionality in any current version of Mailman or is this a feature request?

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Mark Sapiro (msapiro) said : 		#1

Suppose you have list1, list2, ..., listn. If you put @list2, ..., @listn in list1's accept_these_nonmembers, @list1, @list3, ... @listn in list2's accept_these_nonmembers and so on, any member of any of the lists will be able to post to all the lists.

If you're concerned about the resulting duplicates that members of multiple lists will receive, you can add list to list2's regular_exclude_lists, <email address hidden> and <email address hidden> to list3's regular_exclude_lists and so on through adding the addresses of list1 through listn-1 to listn's regular_exclude_lists.

Note that all these entries are 1 per line. accept_these_nonmembers entries are just the list name prefixed with '@'. regular_exclude_lists entries are the full list posting address.

In summary, Privacy options .. ->Sender filters -> accept_these_nonmembers of each list gets the names of all lists except itself prefixed with '@'.

Non-digest options -> regular_exclude_lists gets the posting address of the 'previous' lists, but not its own or that of 'following' lists. This ensures that posts addressed to all the lists or some subset of all the lists will be delivered to each list member from only the 'first' list of which she is a member.

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