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

karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Mon Jan 7 12:17:43 UTC 2008


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.
>   

So, what is needed to get this going ? I'm not sure what is required to 
do this.

Karl

> 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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