[Webteam] Contacting the Board (and maybe Box-Admins)

[Ken Causey]

Can I take it that while this sounds good to Karl, that no one on the
webteam has any time to make it a reality?

Ken

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:19 +0100, karl wrote:
> Sounds good.
> 
> Karl
> 
> Ken Causey wrote:
> > Sure, and I mentioned it in the subject but failed to do so in the body
> > that I wonder about using such a thing for server issues.  So perhaps we
> > could have a single form with a radio list or drop down where the sure
> > specifies the topic of the mailing that would choose the recipient:
> > either the Board or Webteam or Box-Admins.  It might be useful to have
> > any messages related to the website or other community services to go to
> > both the webteam and box-admins mailing lists so whoever can handle the
> > issue best can do so quickly.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:48 +0100, Karl wrote:
> >   
> >> I've been thinking about something similar for the webteam list. We do 
> >> get a real message from time to time but the amount of spam is 
> >> overwhelming sometimes.
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >> Ken Causey wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Related to my thread started earlier I'm no a cleanup campaign and one
> >>> of the things I'm trying to cleanup are over a hundred thousand
> >>> unmoderated messages sitting around that no one wants to moderate (and I
> >>> fully understand since I do this job on two lists twice a week myself).
> >>>
> >>> For most lists it's a relatively simple issue, reject messages from
> >>> non-subscribers in the future and I delete the old messages.  However
> >>> there are exceptions.  One of those is the Board mailing list.  The
> >>> Board needs to be contactable as a group.  However no one on the Board
> >>> has the time to look through the gobs and gobs of spam for the rare
> >>> valuable message.
> >>>
> >>> Craig and I spoke about this on IRC and he brought up the idea of a web
> >>> form with a captcha.  Obviously the ideal location for such a thing
> >>> would be on www.squeak.org.  Does anyone have the time to implement such
> >>> a thing?  I think I might be able to provide a shortcut on the captcha,
> >>> so don't sweat that one too much.  If you would like more information
> >>> let me know or come and chat on #squeak.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Ken
> >>>   
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