Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Great, sounds excellent - thanks. :-)
BALUG-Test or balug-test would be appropriate (depending on context, etc.), but not Balug-test - I think it must've defaulted to initial cap on that, as I'd not altered that.
I didn't change that (what you refer to as public name of the list) -- only the Subject header 'tag'. GNU Mailman's defaults evince a fetish for initial capitalisation that I find silly and am at some pains to correct.
Send monthly password reminders? Don't think I'd changed that from the default.
Hmm, curious.
There's a great deal of dumb online arguing about Mailman's _traditional_ default of mailing each subscriber his/her subscription password on the first of each month. After much pondering, I think on balance it's A Good Thing for several reasons I won't get into unless you wish me to.
Probably doesn't matter much at all for BALUG-Test. For BALUG-{Admin,Talk,Announce} might be best to match - or at least approximate - existing configurations being migraged ... at least excepting where they're clearly wrong/broken.
I actually do thing 'yes' is A Good Thing. Glad to discuss this if you wish.
I think so far the only message that got held for moderation was both legitimate ... and legitimate hold ... it was where I'd Bcced the list ....
Yes, Bcc'ing a mailing list is pretty much always going to cause listadmin scrutiny. No way around that.
Send mail to poster when their posting is held for approval? (Edit respond_to_post_requests) ... debatable....
Again, glad to discuss my reasoning. (It's late, and I've had too little sleep, or I'd say more here. But I've pretty firmly come down on the 'no' side after much pondering.)
Replace the From: header address with the list's posting address to mitigate issues stemming from the original From: domain's DMARC or similar policies. (from_is_list) - looks like that's set to: No Do nothing special ... anyway, probably should reasonably do as existing lists - if that's not too broken; in any case, can review later.
I'm too tired to talk about this, but the setting I established does munging when required to comply with the sending domain's DMARC policy, resulting in the From: header on that particular mailing list post, as retransmitted to the subscribers, becoming a bit peculiar. I recommend looking up details. The solution's dismaying but necessitated by the badness that is DMARC.
And ... looking over one other list of same installation, which I'd not tweaked configuration on at all ... looks like that's the default (No Do nothing special)....
Umm.... The setting I described is definitely _not_ the Mailman default.
Send monthly password reminders? - looks like that has a default of No on new lists.
Curious. That's a change from the built-in defaults of the releases I've run in the past.
Again, when I'm less tired and have more time, I can present my reasoning why I think 'yes' is better in general.