What Different Administrative Roles Are There?

ListManager allows full delegation of rights and responsibilities to others, so that administrators only have control over what is appropriate for them to control. The four roles are:

Server Administrators

The server administrator controls how the server runs. The server administrator can create sites, and has control over things that affect all the sites on their server. 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 their 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

Typically, someone (or several people) on each mailing list act as the administrator of the mailing list. They can add and remove members of the group, approve moderated messages, and other things which concern regular mailing list maintenance.

Members

Someone who belongs to a mailing list run by your ListManager. A mailing list member has no administrative powers.

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 roles except members are required to have a password. If additional member security is desired, members can be required to define a password and will be automatically assigned a password if they do not.