Hi Anne, *, On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:17 PM, anne-ology <lagin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do that for a very simple reason; > so all of this group is aware of what's happening.
As the explanation that follows is rather longish, here the short-form: the decision whether a mail is spam or legitimate is fast, moderators know immediately whether to let it pass or ignore it. Replying to moderate it is fast as well. Much faster than reading an additional mail, so any notices about what actions one moderator did take are not needed. But here's the long version about why letting the group know "what's happening" doesn't make sense. There are a total of 3 cases, and in neither a forwarded mail makes sense. 1) you let the mail pass to the list → moderators will see the mail on the list → that is their notification that they don't need to take action (even if they do, nothing happens, the mail won't be delivered twice to the list) 2) you don't let the mail pass because it is obvious spam → other moderators will also know this is spam and not let them pass. Sending a note "this is spam" is telling the other moderators: "I don't think you're smart enough to tell that this is a spam message". So no benefit here. 3) you explicitly reject the message because it is not-so-obvious-spam or because it contains flames/hatred/whatever → no matter what moderators think of it, you already made the decision. Whether moderators ignore it or reply to it to let it pass, it doesn't have any effect. A note won't really help. People get moderation requests immediately, and any note you sent will be only with a delay. So the chances that moderators already have read & parsed & made their decision whether to let it pass or ignore before reading any of your notes. The only case when it makes sense to send notification to other moderators is when you reject a mail with the intend to contact the author of the rejected mail on why it was rejected ("I'll let the poster know that his mail contained private data, and the poster might not be aware that this info will be public in various archives"). I.e. when you reject (and then it must be a reject, and not just ignore to let it expire) a "legitimate" mail (no spam or similar). Remember: Moderator's job as in "technical mailinglist administrator" is to let mails through to the list from people that are not subscribed. It happens that also spam is sent to the list-address, that obviously should not be passed. moderator's job is not to replace a spam-filter (there already are spam filters before it even gets handed over to the mailing list system) - but rather to let valid postings through. Ignoring the spam is just a side-effect. Of course it depends on the type of list whether on what the ratio of spam to legitimate messges is (announce lists have more "spam", as real people using it is low, etc) And there are of course other meanings of moderator, but those are unrelated to a "technical mailing-list moderator" as is the topic here. If you have spare cycles, you can moderate the list itself in the sense of acting as a mediator, take care that the tone on the lists stays friendly, and similar - but this then happens on the list itself or by private mails to the people involved in the discussion on the list and does not affect the other "technical mailinglist moderators" :-) ciao Christian -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: moderators+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted