On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jason Helfman wrote to Majordomo-Users:
> | > 3. We need subsciptions to be limited by a moderator.
> |
> | In the .config file for each list, this will cause all subscription
> | requests to go to the list owner for approval:
> |
> | subscribe_policy = closed
>
> subscribe policy is closed, ok, and make the moderator whomever, right.
You don't need to specify a moderator in the scenario you described. The
moderator is the person to whom all list messages go for approval when you
use "moderate = yes" in the list config file. In your scenario you don't
want a moderated list (remember, you want anyone to be able to post), but
you do want all subscription attempts to be approved by someone.
Normally that is the list owner, as specified in the Sendmail aliases for
the list. There should be one that looks like this, assuming for sake of
example the list name is "mylist" and the owner is you:
owner-mylist:jhelfman@bizrate.com
With "subscribe_policy = closed" in the list config and an alias like
that, all subscription requests will go to you for approval. If you will
be owner of a lot of lists, it may be more convenient to put this in your
aliases file:
listmaster:jhelfman@bizrate.com
And then use aliases like these for each list:
owner-list1:listmaster
owner-list2:listmaster
owner-list3:listmaster
This approach has a couple of advantages. If in future someone else takes
over administration of the list server, he will have to change only the
"listmaster" alias, not all the "owner" aliases. It also helps obscure
the identity of the list owner, if that matters to you.
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