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Posted to dev@ponymail.apache.org by Sharan Foga <sh...@apache.org> on 2018/07/17 09:53:00 UTC

Non Posting Mailing Lists?

Hi

I just had a thought and decided to start a new thread but it is related a little to my previous post about creating the first message on a mailing list.

Looking at some of the older ASF mailing lists that are no longer in use – they seem to be there for display purposes. In theory would we really want to start any new threads on them? So my question here is -  is there are flag somewhere that is set for mailing lists that are no longer allowing postings? (If so then the subscribe, non subscribe and start new thread options wouldn’t be allowed or displayed… right?)

Thanks
Sharan

Re: Non Posting Mailing Lists?

Posted by Sharan Foga <sh...@apache.org>.
OK I'll have a go at creating my first enhancement request then.

Thanks
Sharan

On 2018/07/17 10:23:19, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 17 July 2018 at 10:53, Sharan Foga <sh...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just had a thought and decided to start a new thread but it is related a little to my previous post about creating the first message on a mailing list.
> >
> > Looking at some of the older ASF mailing lists that are no longer in use – they seem to be there for display purposes. In theory would we really want to start any new threads on them? So my question here is -  is there are flag somewhere that is set for mailing lists that are no longer allowing postings? (If so then the subscribe, non subscribe and start new thread options wouldn’t be allowed or displayed… right?)
> 
> Good idea.
> 
> Sounds like a useful enhancement request.
> 
> Subscription requests would fail and so would posts, but it would be
> kinder to disable the buttons and replace them with some text to say
> that the list has been closed.
> 
> Would be useful to have the info available as part of the API.
> The info could be held either in the ES database or in config.lua.
> 
> > Thanks
> > Sharan
> >
> >
>

Re: Non Posting Mailing Lists?

Posted by sebb <se...@gmail.com>.
On 17 July 2018 at 10:53, Sharan Foga <sh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just had a thought and decided to start a new thread but it is related a little to my previous post about creating the first message on a mailing list.
>
> Looking at some of the older ASF mailing lists that are no longer in use – they seem to be there for display purposes. In theory would we really want to start any new threads on them? So my question here is -  is there are flag somewhere that is set for mailing lists that are no longer allowing postings? (If so then the subscribe, non subscribe and start new thread options wouldn’t be allowed or displayed… right?)

Good idea.

Sounds like a useful enhancement request.

Subscription requests would fail and so would posts, but it would be
kinder to disable the buttons and replace them with some text to say
that the list has been closed.

Would be useful to have the info available as part of the API.
The info could be held either in the ES database or in config.lua.

> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>