OK, I have now completed this. I had to change the plan slightly.
Each 'night' the current members of squeak-dev will be used to generate the whitelist for both the board and box-admins list. I found that once the list is this big the web interface cannot handle it. The command line configuration utility and mailman itself is fine with it. As a result the first entry in the whitelist is now 'do_not_modify_this@kencausey.com' and you can't actually modify any setting on this mailman configuration page now. It's not likely to come up but if you do need to modify something either let me know or use the command line tool. To the end of the list a small number of email addresses are added for people who are not on squeak-dev but should be able to email the list. For the board list I extracted it from the previous setting. If you need this changed let me know.
The script can be found at /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sqdwhite if anyone is curious about the details.
Ken
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:32 -0700, Craig Latta wrote:
Hi Ken--
We'd like to whitelist all the squeak-dev members for the board
list, as you suggested. You mentioned that it would take a little bit of work to do this symbolically, so that no further action need be taken when new people subscribe to squeak-dev. In the meantime, would you mind literally whitelisting the addresses from squeak-dev from time to time, starting now?
thanks again!
-C
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