| <p>The administrative requests are displayed in one of two ways, on a |
| <a href="%(summaryurl)s">summary page</a>, and on a <em>details</em> |
| page. The summary page contains pending subscription and |
| unsubscription requests, as well as postings being held for your |
| approval, grouped by sender email address. The details page contains |
| a more detailed view of each held message, including the all the |
| message's headers and an excerpt of the message body.</p> |
| |
| <p>On all the pages, the following actions are available:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| |
| <li><strong>Defer</strong> -- Defer your decision until later. |
| No action is taken now for this pending administrative |
| request, but for held postings, you can still forward or |
| preserve the message (see below).</li> |
| |
| <li><strong>Approve</strong> -- Approve the message, sending |
| it on to the list. For membership requests, approve the |
| change in membership status.</li> |
| |
| <li><strong>Reject</strong> -- Reject the message, sending a |
| rejection notice to the sender, and discarding the original |
| message. For membership requests, reject the change in |
| membership status. In either case, you should add a reason |
| for the rejection in the accompanying text box.</li> |
| |
| <li><strong>Discard</strong> -- Throw away the original |
| message, without sending a rejection notice. For membership |
| requests, this simply discards the request without notice to |
| the person making the request. This is usually the action you |
| want to take for known spam. </li> |
| |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>For held messages, turn on the <strong>Preserve</strong> option if |
| you want to save a copy of the message for the site administrator. |
| This is useful for abusive messages that you want to discard, but need |
| to keep a record of for later inspection.</p> |
| |
| <p>Turn on the <strong>Forward to</strong> option, and fill in the |
| forwarding address if you want to forward the message to someone else |
| not on the list. To edit a held message before it is sent on to the |
| list, you should forward the message to yourself (or the list owners), |
| and discard the original message. Then, when the message shows up in |
| your mailbox, make your edits and resend the message to the list, |
| including an <tt>Approved:</tt> header with the list password as its |
| value. It is proper netiquette in this case to include a note in the |
| resent message, explaining that you have modified the text.</p> |
| |
| <p>If the sender is a list member who is being moderated, you can |
| optionally clear their moderation flag. This is useful when your list |
| is configured to put new members on probation, and you've decided that |
| this member can be trusted to post to the list without approval.</p> |
| |
| <p>If the sender is not a list member, you can add the email address |
| to a <em>sender filter</em>. Sender filters are described on the <a |
| href="%(filterurl)s">sender filter privacy page</a>, and may be one of |
| <strong>auto-accept</strong> (Accepts), <strong>auto-hold</strong> |
| (Holds), <strong>auto-reject</strong> (Rejects), or |
| <strong>auto-discard</strong> (Discards). This option will not be |
| available if the address is already on one of the sender filters.</p> |
| |
| <p>When you're finished, click on the <em>Submit All Data</em> button |
| at the top or bottom of the page. This button will submit all |
| selected actions for all administrative requests that you've made a |
| decision for.</p> |
| |
| <p><a href="%(summaryurl)s">Return to the summary page</a>.</p> |