Alan Burlison wrote:
> Glynn Foster wrote:
>
>> I agree with Garrett. If someone is willing to step up, volunteer
>> their time, and moderate a list so that auto-reject can be turned
>> off, then I think we should be willing to accommodate that from an
>> infrastructure point of view. Quite how that works if there's any
>> politics involved, I don't know. Perhaps Alan might be able to
>> generate some stats on who the poor list administrators are in terms
>> of when they last logged in?
>
> I believe this is now being sorted, but just a note about the
> auto-reject setting: that's something that is done by the list owners,
> the lists are not set up by default that way. And as I said before,
> if the owners don't get to the messages we are moderating the lists
> anyway, so there shouldn't be a problem with mails sitting in queues
> for a long time.
>
I understand this, thank you. In my opinion, either this option should
(auto reject) should not be available to list owners, or they should be
strongly discouraged from doing so (perhaps with rationale included.)
The exceptional cases might be lists that are strictly intended for
conversations between small numbers of folks and not intended to be
"open". (For example, the list for communications between OGB members.)
I believe so strongly in this that I think there should be an official
policy about it -- one that would be blessed by the OGB.
-- Garrett
