I'm in the process of updating bulk_mailer, and the new version will have
a lot more ability to redirect messages based on several criteria:
whether the author is a subscriber, whether the author is on a list of
people with permission to post, whether there are too many recipient
addresses in the message header, whether the list address is in the
message header, and so on.
naturally, one of the options is to forward such messages to a moderator
who can then decide whether they're really okay for the list.
the question is: what format for such messages is the most compatible
with various user agents - to allow them to review the message and send
it back to the list if approved?
or, since my guess is that there isn't a way to do this that is supported
by existing user agents, perhaps a better question is this: would it
be worthwhile to define a standard profile of MIME to be used when
forwarding a message to a moderator for approval, and to send the message,
once approved, back to the list? would UA authors support such a thing?
Keith
p.s. what I'm doing currently is quite simplistic: prepend an
extra set of headers:
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To: moderator
Subject: listname: reason for forwarding to moderator
Content-Type: message/rfc822
forwarded message goes here
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and then it's fairly simple for a shell script to strip off those
headers and remail it back to the list. but I'm using MH.
I suspect most folks aren't using an interface that is so easily scripted...