Last modified: 2011-01-25 00:24:08 UTC
I am a list admin on a WM hosted list. I routinely get subscribe and unsubscribe notifications that state user X was subscribed or unsubscribed to the list. But on a largish list with multiple list admins there is no easy way for any list admin to check or have a record what's gone on without a follow-up email to ask. Can subscribe and unsubscribe notifications to list admins be amended to state "X was subscribed/unsubscribed _by Y_"? On a similar theme list admins on sensitive lists have no way to crosscheck changes to the list config. Although all list admins are trusted it's normal that however trusted users may be, every sensitive action can be crosschecked by their peers (eg checkuser/oversight which are not allowed unless two or more will exist on a project). Nobody can check my actions as a list admin, and I can't check anyone elses. Again could mailing lists be customized so that changes by list admins to the list config are notified to other list admins?
(In reply to comment #0) > Can subscribe and unsubscribe notifications to list admins be amended to state > "X was subscribed/unsubscribed _by Y_"? > No, because there's no way for Mailman to know who did it, since we all share a password and don't login with anything personal. For this to be possible, Mailman would have to redo its permissions schema, so you'd have to report that upstream: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman>. However, I'm not sure if I see this happening in the near future. :-)
