oss-security - Re: list: members vs. read-only subscribers

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:12:54 -0400
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: list: members vs. read-only subscribers

On 23 April 2008, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:04:40AM -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > Have the gears started turning that will make this happen yet?  I'm not in
> > a big rush, I just don't want this conversation to be forgotten.
> 
> Thank you for pinging me, although the request was not forgotten -
> rather, it was queued.
> 
> Well, this turned out to be a trivial change to the ezmlm-gate line in
> the editor file; it's just that it was beyond the capabilities of
> ezmlm-make (so we'll need to remember to not lose this custom change
> when re-configuring the list later).
> 
> The list should now be message-moderated for everyone except for people
> (or rather, for their envelope-from addresses) who have subscribed or
> posted desirable messages until today.  As more people (or addresses)
> make desirable postings, we may be adding those to the "allow" list as
> well (or maybe not - this is up to us).
> 
> Let's see how this works in practice.
> 

This is wonderful, thank you.  I shall try to update the wiki later today.

-- 
    JB

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