- Stephen J. Turnbull (turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp) [210216 16:24]:
But if the admin should respect the DBS (disabled by subscriber) setting, DBS|DBA (disabled by admin) is logically equivalent to DBS. Are there use cases where the admin does not want to repect the subscriber's choice, and enables it anyway? What are they?
To support a user saying "I have disabled myself and can't re-enable it, can you help me please". So basically when acting on-behalf of the user.
Or while importing from another server, and there are people who have receiving mails disabled, this is the state that could be used for it.
Why wouldn't they get the exact state from the original server? Or do you mean from a non-Mailman server?
For example, however there are no more imports from yahoogroups (that's why I started using mm3).
This is possible. If it occurs less than once in a million years, it's "too unimportant" to even think about.[2] Have you actually done this, or know anybody who has?
I'm happy to have forgotten much of my past experience, and for "my" archives I hope to be soon able to switch from subscriber-only to authorized-user-only, so doesn't matter too much for me anymore.
Otherwise, I think the good thing of this discussion is that we have now clearly written up the current state machine.
Otherwise, I just wrote up my favourite but if it stays the current way, well, that's ok of course as well. :) Thanks for your answers and time.
Andi