Greg Stein, who hosts the Scintilla and SciTE mailing lists,
mentioned that one contributing factor to the recent list slowdown was
the length of the moderation queues. I'm turning off moderation of
non-members for the -announce lists now - messages from non-members will
be rejected. If this happens to you, send me an email and I'll post the
announcement.
It may also be an idea to have a second person volunteer to check
the moderation queue once a day in case I'm away or otherwise don't get
to it. I normally check early morning, some time between 7:00 and 9:00
Sydney time, so someone who can generally check 12 hours from then would
be good. I wrote a script (Python) to present all the moderation items
one per line in a browser with all defaulting to "Discard" so moderation
is very rapid. Depending on spam rate there can be a couple of hundred
moderation items per day with almost all obvious spam. Then there will
be a couple of obvious accepts and a couple of uncertain status which
can be read or deferred.
Outgoing mail is now handled by a second computer with spare
capacity. The pipeline has been reordered to be more efficient.
Neil
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