On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_stsp.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 05:22:56PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> Someone today disabled "Guest posting" for this list to turn off the
>> web-based posting. We cannot do this (yet). Currently this also
>> shuts off the ability of anyone who is not posting from the email
>> address assigned to their tigris.org account, and that account is
>> subscribed to the list. So anyone subscribed via another email
>> address or anyone not subscribed cannot post. It does not even go to
>> moderation.
>>
>> There is feature in development to fix this, and specifically separate
>> out the settings for web posting and email. Once that is done, we
>> will be able to disable web posting, or just anonymous web posting
>> while allowing anyone, including unsubscribed users, to still email
>> the list.
>
> OK. Let's hope they get it fixed quickly.
>
> Speaking of the mailing list software:
>
> Are developers of the software aware of the fact that the mailing
> list software seems to rewrite the From: header to the primary
> email address of the tigris account when it forwards messages to the
> list, regardless of which address the sender did actually put in
> the From header when sending the mail? That's not really that great.
I complained about it too, and I think Jack reported it. Not sure
where it stands.
> (Mark, you should get two copies of this mail, the list copy coming
> from another my elego address, and the other copy from another address.)
I use Gmail which hides a lot of this weirdness. Even if I get the
second copy, it will probably not show it to me.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on 2009-04-23 14:16:48 CEST