[Adium-devl] Spam on this list

[Eric Richie]

On May 3, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Zachary West wrote:

> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 17:56, Zachary West <zacwest at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There's no concept of "owners" - there's an admin password. Now,  
>> every
>> single time I go to modify one of the mailing lists, I just change  
>> the
>> password.

No wonder I haven't been able to get into anything lately... :(  This  
really isn't a good solution to not remembering a password since  
several of us use it.

>> I don't know what they're suppose to be, really, but I
>> really hate mailman; it's just ridiculously middle-of-last-decade.
>
> You can set moderator emails, who then have to get a new "moderator"
> password from mailman, and can then login somewhere and do it.

Yes, you list a couple people as owners or moderators and it emails  
you when there's something new.  If we set it up the same way as  
cabal, we can have it email whoever among us want to moderate (for  
cabal it's Evan and I) and then when you see a request you just log in  
with the admin password by following the link right in the email.   
It's really not THAT terrible to do so.

> Perhaps psa's "require registration to post" is a good move. It
> doesn't cause us any extra work. Thoughts?

Last time we discussed that it was shot down because it makes an extra  
step for users and we all know that users will take any opportunity to  
bitch about having to register.  However since this is supposed to be  
a development related list, I don't see that as being a big deal.

-Eric