For some time now we have had an issue with certain support mailing lists (board, box-admins, webteam) where we would like to make it easy for the community to send email to the list with requests, but we didn't want to have to deal with spam. The original plan was to setup a web form on www.squeak.org but this has not ever been completed.
As I continued to think about this it occurred to me that this plan was really non-optimal and that what seemed to make the most sense was to allow any member of squeak-dev to email these lists. I formed a rather grandiose plan of how to do this and as a result never got around to completing it. Craig Latta suggested a simpler approach and I was able to adapt that into something that I think will work well.
Each 'night' the members of the squeak-dev list are extracted and set as the whitelist for the board and box-admins list, along with a few other manually added email addresses.
If you would like this for the webteam list let me know. I will also need to know what if any email addresses should be added in addition to those who are on squeak-dev. One side effect of this is that it makes the Privacy Options...->Sender Filters page of the mailman web configuration interface unusable; it simply can't handle this size whitelist. This is not likely to be a problem, if you need a setting changed here (if the auto-whitelisting is applied of course) just let me know.
Ken
webteam@lists.squeakfoundation.org