Re: [ubl-csc] Setting up the subcommittee portal for the public

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2003-04-07 08:48 -0400, I wrote:
>At 2003-03-31 08:38 +0800, Tim McGrath wrote:
>>G. Ken Holman wrote:
>>(2) - email list
>>>     - the ezmlm mailer for ubl-fpsc seems responsive, so I tried to sign
>>>       up a non-member email address
>>>     - as owner of the list I was asked through the ezmlm interface to
>>>       authorize the new address, and after doing so, the new address was
>>>       welcomed as a member of the list
>>>     - so, as chair, if I get a request from someone who I don't know to
>>>       join the FPSC mail list as a lurker, I have no way of knowing if
>>>       they are an OASIS member or not to warrant being "pushed" the
>>>       information that goes through the FPSC mail list
>>>     - what is my procedure as chair to vet the qualifications of the
>>>       person asking to joint the mail list?
>>>     - oh, I also tried a "who" to ubl-fpsc-request@lists.oasis-open.org
>>>       which was the way in the past to get membership information; that
>>>       appears to be interpreted now as an unrecognized command and just
>>>       gives help information ...
>>>       - how would I review the list of members on the mail list?
>>>       - I note the Email button top right only takes me to archives
>>
>>i am not sure the ezmlm interface is how new members join.  did your 
>>attempt get any messages sent to the new list? i.e. did it work?
>
>No and yes:  the test address received notification of being joined to the 
>group, but when it attempted to send a message to the group, it was told 
>"you are not authorized to post to the list".  Today I created a document 
>in a folder with notification for all members and the test address *did* 
>receive notification of the addition of the document.  So unauthorized 
>subscribers to the mail list can get some benefit by "push" announcements 
>by KAVI.

Here's a quirk: I cannot unsubscribe the "test" address that is 
successfully receiving KAVI notifications of mail messages and group 
activities:

>Date: 8 Apr 2003 20:56:19 -0000
>From: MAILER-DAEMON@mail.oasis-open.org
>To: test@CraneSoftwrights.com
>Subject: failure notice
>
>Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.oasis-open.org.
>I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
>This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
><ubl-fpsc-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org>:
>ezmlm-manage: fatal: Sorry, I've been told to reject all requests (#5.7.2)
>...

:{)} Don't try this at home ... I'll ask OASIS to clear out the test address.

................ Ken


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