From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 09:40:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7827837B404 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0F343F93 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:39:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h52GdwOg015987; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h52Gdws1015986; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:39:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200306021639.h52Gdws1015986@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: cswiger@mac.com (Chuck Swiger) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:39:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <3EDB7C40.5040207@mac.com> from "Chuck Swiger" at Jun 02, 2003 12:33:04 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: List Administration, was: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:40:00 -0000 > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > [ ... ] > > Gee whiz. Another round of this argument. Seems it comes along > > about every 2 or 3 months and is all the same and seems to generate > > as much unnecessary traffic as spamers do. It just indicates that > > the advocates do not understand the function or operation of this list. > > Modern mailing lists are capable of holding unapproved postings for moderator > approval. If was moderated, the spam would be read once > by a member of the team of moderators, and then discarded rather than being > forwarded to all of the members of the list. Yah, and that one has been covered a hundred times too. You want to pay a couple of full time salaries to people to sit around and moderate the list, cough up. ////jerry > > Legitimate list traffic from members of the list would be approved by default, > with a few exceptions (ie, administrivia postings like "unsubscribe"). > > Legitmate list traffic from non-members of the list would be approved after > moderator review. If there is sufficient interest-- being defined as at least > two other people who are willing to act as moderators (*)-- I'll set up a > moderated version of this list and let the user community decide for themselves. > > -Chuck > > ------- > (*): Having several people moderate makes the task load easier, tends to balance > out bursts of held postings, and makes a second opinion available for boundary > cases. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >