On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
>
> Still, putting the messages into the moderation queue would be far
> friendlier than bouncing them outright. The pkg-discuss moderation duties
> are quite small, and the normal list traffic there is pretty sizeable. I
> imagine moderating on-discuss wouldn't be a huge burden.
I keep traffic stats actually:
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul
Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
on-discuss 26 114 - - - - -
- - - - - 140
pkg-discuss 975 751 - - - - -
- - - - - 1726
There are a number of lists who bounce/reject email from the non-subscribed
which, along with those that silently discard, are something I've been trying
to discourage and even make policy discouraging it in the cases where general
public participation is actively encouraged, e.g. web-side forums with gateways
to mailing lists. But, I think in this case the point is well met that you
should be in possession of enough technical prowess to understand both the need
and the method for subscription. Reject or hold comes down to the semantics of
who your audience/subscribers is/are and if you care that more people will be
irate when rejected rather than held for moderation. It does tend to raise the
bar on technical/dev lists.
I think I've managed to reduce the amount of spam getting as far as the
moderation queue to a minimum, with the exception of spam in French which
always seems to go to indiana and cifs, which makes moderation less of a
pointless chore for those who fear moderation would be a deluge of spam. And I
clear the mod queue at least once a day...but I probably shouldn't admit to
that in public. :)
Those with one or more addresses who don't want to receive list mail can always
either request a specific whitelist entry by the list owner or they can always
subscribe and tick the 'no mail' box in their subscription management panel via
the mailman web interface. I had no objections to specific username at domain
whitelist entries in mailman, only the large blanket and, often wildly
incorrect, sun.com whitelist entries.
e.
