Was: Shuttleworth (SABDFL) wants to shutdown this ubuntu.user list

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Fri, September 30, 2011 17:59, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:54, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:38, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> > It would be interesting to see if the list could have a selective
>> "hold and moderate" feature
>> > like this.
>>
>> as this is a MailMan list, this could easily be implemented by changing
>> just one setting. might be worth a try?
>>
>> Is it?  To make this work, selectivity is the key.  It would be
>> wonderful if mailman could select either users or
>> threads for this purpose, and if it were easy to edit the selections.
>>
>> I've not used mailman in about a decade.  Is it up to this?
>>
>> --
>> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Kevin,
Your signature separator is broken. It is "--" but it should be "-- ".

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>
> It can be applied to new users, that their posts are under moderation, and
> thus have to be reviewed by an admin, by default. it'd be a lot of work to
> start with, but non-new members could also have this set to review
> everybody

This is not the feature that the topic starter requested. So you're
actually going on a tangent in a thread that was already off topic.