Re: New posts are not displaying

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/New-posts-are-not-displaying-tp7598571p7598639.html

Hi John,

johnreimer wrote

My impression was that he made me an Administrator (to my surprise). However, SourceForge lists me only as a Moderator, and yet Nabble lists me as one of the three Administrators. I am used to ambiguity in life, so I don't lose any sleep over this.

Just realised some explanation of "moderator" and "administrator" might be helpful.

Anyone can subscribe and post to a mail list. There is no method of controlling those subscribing, but subscribers may be marked for moderation when their posts are not automatically forwarded to subscribers. In other words control takes place on a post by post basis.

Forums are fundamentally different. Individual posts are not controlled, rather access is. A forum administrator controls the areas of the forum where a user may view, post or reply, but once those permissions are granted he has no control over individual  posts.

In the case of a Nabble archive of a mail list, it is Nabble that is subscriber to the list and the posts that Nabble receives are automatically  posted to its archive. Nabble users can post to the forum and their post will be forwarded to the mail list, not as a post by Nabble, but spoofed with a From address showing the Nabble user's email addeess, but as most list software bans non-subscribers from posting, unless the same email address is recorded as a subriber on the source list the post at Nabble will be marked as pending acceptance by the list.

Hope that provides the background and reason for the different terminology.