new "access" parameter in readers.conf
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
Wed May 8 22:02:13 UTC 2002
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> I have two questions about the change in readers.conf in 2.3.3. In
> descending order of importance:
>
> 1. How is one supposed to deal with self-moderated groups?
Mm. Interesting.
> 2. When a user is given "Access" access, does this affect all groups,
> or is there a way to limit them to posting Approved headers to the
> group(s) that they moderate?
The former. I can imagine adding a parameter to reader.conf to specify a
wildmat of the groups to which approval is permitted, but I don't see it
as very pressing.
> I think our moderators can be trusted, so #2 is not so important,
Well, if we had that, you could simply give everyone A access to the
self-moderated groups.
> but #1 is something I have to resolve before I can put INN 2.3.3
> into production on reader machines.
Why? The current functionality is a strict superset of what we had
before. For the time being you can give everyone A access and get exactly
the behavior you currently have, right?
What behavior do you envision for this situation?
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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
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