What Different Administrative Roles Are There?

Aurea List Manager allows full delegation of rights and responsibilities to others, so that administrators only see and have control over what is appropriate for them to control.

Each of these roles can be assigned to multiple people and each person can have multiple roles. All roles are protected by a username / password combination and all administrative roles are required to have a password. If additional member security is desired, members can be required to define a password.

In addition to these standard administrative roles, granular permissions may be used if access to particular portions of the administrative interface is necessary,

The principle administrative roles are:

• Server Administrators

  The server administrator controls how the entire server runs. The server administrator can create sites, and has control over things that affect all the sites on their server, such as database configuration, network settings and scheduled tasks. A server administrator can access all Site and List administration menus.

• Site Administrators

  A site administrator typically doesn't deal with the day-to-day workings of a mailing list. Instead, the site administrator can create and remove mailing lists, create documents, create auto-responders and other functions that affect the site as a whole. A Site Administrator is also entitled to act as the list administrator of any mailing list in the site.

Site administrators typically are not aware of other sites on the servers, nor are they aware of mailing lists belonging to these other sites.

• List Administrators

  List administrators are list members with enhanced administrative powers, and do most of the day-to-day administration of lists. They can add and remove members, send messages, approve moderated messages, and other things which concern regular mailing list maintenance. They may also change the list settings.

• Non-Administrative Roles

  Users who are not administrators may also have access to Aurea List Manager.

• Members

  Members are email addresses of people on a mailing list. A mailing list member has no administrative powers, but may typically change their own settings or unsubscribe. Depending on the list, a member may be able to post messages to the list.

• Visitors

  People who are not members may, depending on the list settings, view and search list message archives in the discussion forum interface.