Re: how to determine who approved a posting ... ?

Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:55:43 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.mail.majordomo.majordomo2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Excerpts from Marc G. Fournier's message of jue ene 20 13:59:50 -0300 201=
1:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > I was thinking that it might be possible to patch Mj2 so that the
> > approving moderator was saved in a header.  But, as you say, if someo=
ne
> > approves using the token, then there's no way to know what moderator
> > used it.  (It would be necessary to send different tokens to each
> > moderator, and store the moderator's identity in the token server-sid=
e.)
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> I may be missing something here, but assuming we are talking about a to=
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> sent through email, vs the web interface, could we not store the email=20
> address who *used* that token successfully?  By successfully, I'm think=
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> the on etha tcaused the message to be released, vs any that come in aft=
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> it ... ?

Well, you are correct that we could use the email address that sends the
authorization for a token (though that could be a fake address), but the
token can also used on the web interface *without* logging in first.

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