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On 25/02/12 21:45, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, paul sutton wrote: > >> Can mailman list server software be set up so admins can control who >> subscribes, as in if I set a discussion list up for this computer group >> I am setting, I can add peoples e-mail address and they HAVE to apply >> for membership (as in see a youth worker and submit a valid e-mail) >> >> I think if they agree to a discussion list it would have to be done this >> way for safeguarding purposes (this is youth service that will demand >> this not me) > > I run mailing lists for young people. This is the first I've heard of > the youth service insisting on that - I am not suggesting they will., but I doubt they will want a mailing list open to anybody so a closed list should offer some sort of safety, now given we are talking about a techy programming group, the idea of having a list is to reach out to people in Torbay that live in parts of the bay where its going to be hard to get to where I am running the group, to me why should it be limited to a few who can get somewhere, where a list makes the group ACCESSIBLE to more people. Plus of course in my experience of lists I can post source code and people can get back to me very quickly on problems, (did this with some LaTeX on the lyx group ages ago, great fixed in a few hours, 2nd pair of eyes over some code really helps. But its probably good practice to have a closed list, I bet if i asked if you could host this, they would insist on crb checking you even though you are not going to even subscribe, or be part of the list or group. > however they are closed lists in that the people who can subscribe are > well-known to the people I'm running them for. > > ...then again, what's left of the youth service probably doesn't have > much of a clue... Well they seem to like the idea of a coding / programming group, the are less sure about me calling it a hacking group (taking the original sense) as that would nicely cover hardware and software hacking. but hey, one step at a time. > > But I think mailman can do what you need. > > cool, its worth suggesting anyway. :) I am fine as longas they don't suggest using facebook, not logged in to it properly for over a week, and have already started to wonder what people see in it, > Gordon > -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq