Re: [Mailman-Users] Polling or voting on list

2013-08-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
e.c. writes: > Thanks, Seun. I suspected as much. The purpose of the prospective voting is > to offload all moderator functions onto the general membership in those > cases where the mailman program itself is not able mediate those functions > (e.g. having owners set maximum daily posting limi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Polling or voting on list

2013-08-23 Thread e.c.
Thanks, Seun. I suspected as much. The purpose of the prospective voting is to offload all moderator functions onto the general membership in those cases where the mailman program itself is not able mediate those functions (e.g. having owners set maximum daily posting limits per member and for the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Polling or voting on list

2013-08-22 Thread Seun Ojedeji
Within the contest of a mailing list would be voting or rating posts? Either way, I don't think mailman currently have such feature. Cheers! sent from Google nexus 4 On 22 Aug 2013 17:54, "e.c." wrote: > Our list would benefit from an ability on the part of listmembers to vote > on proposals m

[Mailman-Users] Polling or voting on list

2013-08-22 Thread e.c.
Our list would benefit from an ability on the part of listmembers to vote on proposals made by listowners. In this type of discussion list a non-secret ballot would be appropriate, and both a tally of pro and con vote totals along with table (text file?) showing the vote associated with each subscr