>>>>>> One thing is not quite clear about this "important user": Do you want this person to be able to post WITHOUT needing moderator approval? or, as a "non subscriber," to require moderator approval?



Nonsubscriber but able to send important announcements without needing moderation.



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From: LISTSERV List Owners' Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hal Keen

Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 5:33 PM

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Subject: Re: User can post but not receive = Editor?



Going back to your initial statement of requirements:



> We would like to have a particular important user be able to post to a 

> moderated list but NOT be moderator and also not receive messages from 

> the list.  I read Editor functions and that is not quite it because we 

> still want existing moderator to to approve non subscriber messages.



One thing is not quite clear about this "important user": Do you want this person to be able to post WITHOUT needing moderator approval? or, as a "non subscriber," to require moderator approval?



Anyone who has Editor status (whether subscribed to the list or not) may post freely--that is, without moderator approval. So if you want this particular user to be moderated, he or she should not be an Editor.



But if you want this user to be able to post freely, Editor status is not the only approach. If subscribers can post freely, then you could subscribe this person but set the NOMAIL option, so he or she is not sent copies of the list email. As someone else mentioned, it's useful in that case to set the ACK option as well; it causes the server to report when the NOMAILed subscriber's messages are distributed. (People who aren't receiving copies of their own posts very often want the reassurance that they got through.)



I know "Editor" sounds a lot like "Moderator," but they are very different things as far as Listserv is concerned.



Hal Keen

 



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