61 lines
3.1 KiB
HTML
61 lines
3.1 KiB
HTML
The administrative requests are displayed in one of two ways, on a <a
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href="%(summaryurl)s">summary page</a>, and on a <em>details</em> page.
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The summary page contains pending subscription and unsubscription
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requests, as well as postings being held for your approval, grouped by
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sender email address. The details page contains a more detailed view of
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each held message, including the all the message's headers and an
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excerpt of the message body.
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<p>On all the pages, the following actions are available:
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<ul> <li><b>Defer</b> -- Defer your decision until later. No action is
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taken now for this pending administrative request, but for held
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postings, you can still forward or preserve the message (see below).
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<li><b>Approve</b> -- Approve the message, sending it on to the list.
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For membership requests, approve the change in membership status.
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<li><b>Reject</b> -- Reject the message, sending a rejection notice to
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the sender, and discarding the original message. For membership
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requests, reject the change in membership status. In either case, you
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should add a reason for the rejection in the accompanying text box.
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<li><b>Discard</b> -- Throw away the original message, without sending a
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rejection notice. For membership requests, this simply discards the
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request without notice to the person making the request. This is
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usually the action you want to take for known spam. </ul>
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<p>For held messages, turn on the <b>Preserve</b> option if you want to
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save a copy of the message for the site administrator. This is useful
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for abusive messages that you want to discard, but need to keep a record
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of for later inspection.
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<p>Turn on the <b>Forward to</b> option, and fill in the forwarding
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address if you want to forward the message to someone else not on the
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list. To edit a held message before it is sent on to the list, you
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should forward the message to yourself (or the list owners), and discard
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the original message. Then, when the message shows up in your mailbox,
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make your edits and resend the message to the list, including an
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<tt>Approved:</tt> header with the list password as its value. It is
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proper netiquette in this case to include a note in the resent message,
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explaining that you have modified the text.
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<p>If the sender is a list member who is being moderated, you can
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optionally clear their moderation flag. This is useful when your list
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is configured to put new members on probation, and you've decided that
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this member can be trusted to post to the list without approval.
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<p>If the sender is not a list member, you can add the email address to
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a <em>sender filter</em>. Sender filters are described on the <a
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href="%(filterurl)s">sender filter privacy page</a>, and may be one of
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<b>auto-accept</b> (Accepts), <b>auto-hold</b> (Holds),
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<b>auto-reject</b> (Rejects), or <b>auto-discard</b> (Discards). This
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option will not be available if the address is already on one of the
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sender filters.
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<p>When you're finished, click on the <em>Submit All Data</em> button at
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the top or bottom of the page. This button will submit all selected
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actions for all administrative requests that you've made a decision for.
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<p><a href="%(summaryurl)s">Return to the summary page</a>.
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