Wanted: list admins

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Thu Jul 12 11:25:40 UTC 2001


Cees de Groot wrote:
> 
> You may have noticed that we transferred this mailing list to a new list
> server. The mailing list software has one quirk, which we can endlessly
> discuss: postings by non-members to the list are held for review by the list
> administrator(s) rather than refused immediately.
> 
> As long as spammers don't flood the list, this is actually OK because people
> often post sensible things even when they are not subscribed. One or two times
> a day, you go through the queue and accept/reject everything that's held for
> moderation.
> 
> There are two possible resolutions:
> 1. Patch the list software so that non-member postings are bounced
> 2. Add 2 list administrators to the team so that the workload is spread out.
> 
> It seems to me a good idea to at least try to do the moderation - if two
> people volunteer (and I accept them - there needs to be a bit of friction in
> handing out administrative access to mailing lists ;-)), we could try this for
> a couple of months and see whether it works out. Otherwise, we'll implement
> the alternative.

I'm going away for a couple of weeks, but could do some work when I'm back...
Also, I you go for alternative 1, how about setting up a form page that
non 
members can fill in and post to the list without subscribing ?
Karl




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