What do all the various 'who can send' choices mean?

21 Nov 2009

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	What do all the various 'who can send' choices mean?

Solution DEFINITIONS:

Accepted: messages are accepted and immediately transmitted to the group
Rejected: messages are rejected. Notice is sent to the sender. No other notices are sent.
Moderated: messages are NOT automatically transmitted to the group. Instead, a notice is sent to the moderator (or owner, if no moderator is listed) and to the sender. If the moderator approves the message, it is transmitted.
"Can send": Equivalent to "accepted", messages from people who "can send" are accepted and immediately transmitted to the group

The most common choices are:

Private, moderated for non-subscribers: Messages from members are accepted. All others require moderator approval. If no moderators are listed, owners must approve. THIS IS THE DEFAULT BEHAVIOR FOR ALL NAMI GROUPS. If you want your group to behave differently, you must explicitly change this setting. Instructions on how to do this are here...
Moderator and owners ONLY, all others rejected: Messages must come from moderators and/or owners. All others are rejected.
Restricted to subscribers and NAMI staff: Messages from subscribers and members of the allstaff mail group are accepted. All others are rejected.
Private, open to nami staff, moderated for non-subscribers: Messages from members are accepted. Messages from members of the ALLSTAFF group are accepted. All others require moderator approval. If no moderators are listed, owners must approve.

From top to bottom:

Closed: All messages are rejected.
Restricted to subscribers: Messages from subscribers are accepted. All others are rejected.
Moderated: All messages sent to the group by members must be approved by a moderator. If no moderators are listed, owners will have to approve the message.
Moderated, even for moderators: ALL messages sent to the group must be approved, regardless of origin.
Moderated, with editor confirmation: Messages must be approved by moderators. Moderators will then receive a confirmation e-mail to which they must reply before the message will be transmitted.
Moderator and owners ONLY, all others rejected: Messages must come from moderators and/or owners. All others are rejected. No notice is sent to the moderators or owners.
Restricted to the local domain: Only those messages coming from, in this case, mailgroups.nami.org, will be accepted. Deprecated. Do not use this choice.
Restricted to the local domain and subscribers: Only those messages coming from, in this case, mailgroups.nami.org, will be accepted, as well as messages from members. Deprecated. Do not use this choice.
Newsletter, restricted to moderators: Only moderators can send. All others (even from owners) are rejected.
Newsletter, restricted to moderators after confirmation: Only moderators can send. All others (even from owners) are rejected. When moderators send, a message will be generated to which they must reply before the message will be transmitted.
Restricted to subscribers: Only subscribers can send. All others are rejected.
Restricted to subscribers and NAMI staff: Only subscribers and members of the allstaff mail group can send. All others are rejected.
Restricted to subscribers check smime signatures: Only subscribers using s/mime signatures will be accepted. All others are rejected.
Moderated, restricted to subscribers: Only subscribers can send, all others are rejected. All messages must receive moderator approval.
Moderated for non-subscribers sending multipart messages: Non-members sending file attachments require moderator approval. All others are accepted
Restricted to subscribers with previous MD5 authentication: Messages from subscribers previously authenticated are accepted. All others are rejected. Depricated. Do not use.
Moderated, for subscribers and moderators: Depricated. Do not use.
Private, moderated for non-subscribers: Messages from members are accepted. All others require moderator approval. If no moderators are listed, owners must approve. THIS IS THE DEFAULT BEHAVIOR FOR ALL NAMI GROUPS.
Private, open to nami staff, moderated for non-subscribers: Messages from members are accepted. Messages from members of the ALLSTAFF group are accepted. All others require moderator approval. If no moderators are listed, owners must approve.
Private, confirmation for non-subscribers: Messages from members are accepted. All others will receive a notice e-mail to which they must reply. On reply, the message will be accepted.
Public list: All messages are accepted.
Public list, bcc rejected: All messages are accepted except for those transmitted via bcc.
Anyone with previous MD5 authentication: Depricated. Do not use.
Public list, multipart messages are forwarded to moderator: All messages accepted. Messages with attachments are forwarded to the moderator, or owner if no moderator is listed.
Public list multipart rejected: Messages with file attachments are rejected. All others are accepted.