Hello,
I have considered that lot of people know the mmsitepass (main password) for our mailman mailinglists. I don't think it's a good idea that a list admin can edit the configuration and other things on other ones. Personaly, i don't considerate it'd be a good idea that nearly all the listadmins from the different lists know the "main password".
I purpose to give each listadmin of a specific list the password only for the list he is list admin on. At the same of course, I'd make a new mmsitepass. There wouldn't a big problem (for me) to write E-Mail's to all the list admins telling them the "new" password for their list their admin on.
By the way: Could someone tell me why wikinl-l has as far as I remember 16 list admins?
Sincerly yours, Ronny Raschkowan [u:Fire]
I think having a global password is really helpful. I have been now and then helping users and blocked mails on fr, en, intl, wikipedia many times, and one unique password help.
This said, there is also a unique password for the french list only, and some people only know this one.
Fire wrote:
Hello,
I have considered that lot of people know the mmsitepass (main password) for our mailman mailinglists. I don't think it's a good idea that a list admin can edit the configuration and other things on other ones. Personaly, i don't considerate it'd be a good idea that nearly all the listadmins from the different lists know the "main password".
I purpose to give each listadmin of a specific list the password only for the list he is list admin on. At the same of course, I'd make a new mmsitepass. There wouldn't a big problem (for me) to write E-Mail's to all the list admins telling them the "new" password for their list their admin on.
By the way: Could someone tell me why wikinl-l has as far as I remember 16 list admins?
Sincerly yours, Ronny Raschkowan [u:Fire]
After discussing with Fire online, I realise my comment was not clear :-)
It is probably best that all ml lists have different passwords, for security reasons. Increasing traffic and ***great*** amount of spam (I administrated the fr list for more than a year, and the english one from time to time) require that a list is administrated by several people at the same time. For clean up. That makes many people in the end. So, having separating password is a good thing.
Now, having a global passwd is also best to have, but this one should be given to a limited number of people.
So, of course, I support what you wrote Fire :-)
I am *very* glad that we have someone taking care of global mailing lists issues now. Thanks for taking care of the job.
Incidently, I would love it if you could work on trying to reduce the spam amount :-) We saw recently that when the lists are not cleaned often, some enregistered user mails tends to get forgotten in the mass.
Fire wrote:
Hello,
I have considered that lot of people know the mmsitepass (main password) for our mailman mailinglists. I don't think it's a good idea that a list admin can edit the configuration and other things on other ones. Personaly, i don't considerate it'd be a good idea that nearly all the listadmins from the different lists know the "main password".
I purpose to give each listadmin of a specific list the password only for the list he is list admin on. At the same of course, I'd make a new mmsitepass. There wouldn't a big problem (for me) to write E-Mail's to all the list admins telling them the "new" password for their list their admin on.
By the way: Could someone tell me why wikinl-l has as far as I remember 16 list admins?
Sincerly yours, Ronny Raschkowan [u:Fire]
Fire wrote:
I have considered that lot of people know the mmsitepass (main password) for our mailman mailinglists. I don't think it's a good idea that a list admin can edit the configuration and other things on other ones. Personaly, i don't considerate it'd be a good idea that nearly all the listadmins from the different lists know the "main password".
I purpose to give each listadmin of a specific list the password only for the list he is list admin on. At the same of course, I'd make a new mmsitepass. There wouldn't a big problem (for me) to write E-Mail's to all the list admins telling them the "new" password for their list their admin on.
Sure, go for it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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