Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:16 PM -0600 2/27/07, Dan Good wrote: > Where can I find more information concerning the uses of aliases and > some examples? That's going to depend on your MTA. We have a little information in the Mailman documentation, the FAQ Wizard, etc... but most of the useful information will proba

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-27 Thread Dan Good
Where can I find more information concerning the uses of aliases and some examples? Dan Good On Feb 27, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Kelly Jones wrote: > On 2/22/07, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 6:43 PM -0700 2/22/07, Kelly Jones wrote: >> >>> My question: what's the best way to handle

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:43 AM -0700 2/27/07, Kelly Jones wrote: > I'd also like members of 'sysops' to decide whether they want "message > to 'sysops' awaiting approval" or not. If I make it an alias, everyone > will get these emails. If I send it to a mailing list, I can setup a > topic so that only people who

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-27 Thread Kelly Jones
On 2/22/07, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 6:43 PM -0700 2/22/07, Kelly Jones wrote: > > > My question: what's the best way to handle a situation like this? Have > > a list owned by itself or "effectively" owned by itself. > > What I've done in situations similar to this, is to make

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:43 PM -0700 2/22/07, Kelly Jones wrote: > My question: what's the best way to handle a situation like this? Have > a list owned by itself or "effectively" owned by itself. What I've done in situations similar to this, is to make the listowner list itself owned by an alias that is directly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Kelly Jones wrote: > >We tried to make sysops owned by itself, but ran into problems: a >spammer emailed sysops, and the mail was held for moderation. However, >the "sysops post requires approval" message came from sysops-bounces >and went to sysops: Mailman apparently detected a loop and didn't >d

[Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-22 Thread Kelly Jones
I'm part of a group of people ("sysops") that own several lists. Because the group changes occasionally, we've created a Mailman list called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and all of our lists are owned by "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The sysops list also receives other (non-Mailman-generated) emails. We tried to m