FQ's list program vs Yahoo

[partherton]

So... what's the difference between FQ's email list and Yahoo, other than you can use email address with your own domain? I need several email lists and I need them to be user friendly otherwise my technology challenged group won't use them.

1. I need the lists not to bug the moderator by making the moderator approve a message to him/her self.

2. I need a list consisting of 5-7 subscribers that will *easily* allow the recipient of an email list message to reply to that message and have it go to all members.

3. I would like to be able to create a post only file that would allow specific emails to post to the list but they would not recieve any email from the list.

I've only gotten thru half of the forum msgs on this topic and I've read the list instructions and from what I've seen so far, I can't do #1. #2 I've seen some info here but nothing that seems to work well. #3 I have not seen mentioned yet.

[edited to say...]
I think #1 and #2 are possible with Yahoo... #3 I'm not sure about but probably not.

Any help would be appreciated!

partherton

[Bruce]

1. I need the lists not to bug the moderator by making the moderator approve a message to him/her self.This may be possible with some .qmail file trickery, but isn't directly accessable with the standard controls. This "bugging the moderator" is actually a security feature, to prevent a trivial forgery from being passed through unchecked. To do this, you will need to modify the "editor" file in /big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LIST/editor. In a moderated list, it will contain a line that looks like:|/usr/local/ezmlm-idx/bin/ezmlm-moderate '/big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LIST'Replace that line with the following (all on one line):|if /usr/local/ezmlm-idx/bin/ezmlm-issubn '/big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LIST/mod; then /usr/local/ezmlm-idx/bin/ezmlm-send '/big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LIST'; else /usr/local/ezmlm-idx/bin/ezmlm-moderate '/big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LIST'; fiWarning, such a configuration is unsupported. Use at your own risk. Any change you subsequently make to the list configuration via the CNC will overwrite all modifications to this file.

2. I need a list consisting of 5-7 subscribers that will *easily* allow the recipient of an email list message to reply to that message and have it go to all members.This can be done, with the downside of making it difficult and confusing to send email only to the sender. How to accomplish this was discussed in this post (http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=130366#post130366)

3. I would like to be able to create a post only file that would allow specific emails to post to the list but they would not recieve any email from the list.This can be done fairly easily. Each mailing list has an "allow" sublist that contains a list of addresses that are allowed to post without directly receiving mail from the list. To subscribe an individual address to the allow sublist, use the following command:ezmlm-sub /big/dom/XDOM/SHELL/LIST/allow email@example.com

[partherton]

Thanks Bruce.

So lets' say I make the changes you suggest. Then later, if the only changes I make thru the CNC are adding/deleteing subscribers, will that mess with the changes I made manually (the changes you mentioned)?

[Bruce]

No, adding or deleting subscribers will not change the list configuration, and as such will not overwrite anything other than the subscriber list (obviously :P ).