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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: O.T. Spam
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-05-28 10:00:54
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On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:43:33AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:15, Jost Schenck wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:04, Michael Marcucio wrote:
> > > is there a way for members(who probrobly will be the majority of posters)
> > > to post freely to the list but non list members posts(might be a few a day?
> > > few a week?) are moderated?
> > 
> > Yes, this is possible.
> 
> Except that you can't combine that with a white-list, so e.g. @kde.org developers
> won't be able to post directly. We're still waiting to see if the next version of
> mailman has "accept posts from list members _and_ from this white list".
> Anyway, it's a smaller problem.
> 
> > It's just that we did not want everybody who wants to 
> > send us compliments/problem reports/etc. to receive a mail "Only members are 
> > allowed to post on this list, your message has been forwarded to the list 
> > maintainer for approval"; it always sounds a little bit insulting, I think. 
> Well, I get that when I post to e.g. kmail@kde.org or other lists I'm not on,
> and I don't feel insulted. With the current amount of spam, it's a normal and
> necessary measure I think.
> 
> > David, Thomas et al. what do you think? Last time we talked about these 
> > problems the spam problem was not nearly as large as it is now, so we might 
> > reconsider this ...
> Yes.
> Well, I'm fine with changing koffice@ to members-only-can-post, but then you'll
> get even MORE admin work to do (accepting any post from users who found
> koffice@kde.org in the webpage). There's also a problem with bug reports for
> "koffice" (and koshell I think?). They arrive onto koffice@kde.org... would be very
> strange for bug reporters to get a "you message awaits for approval" in return ;)
> Maybe we should just send "Package: koffice" reports somewhere else then -
> to someone who could either re-assign if the bug is application-specific,
> or send to the appropriate developer if the problem is in the koffice libs.
> I almost volunteer.... but one day I'll do so much admin work that I'll
> have exactly 0 minutes left for actual development.....
> 

I suggest to try this for some time, probably best to _not_ send the email that
the post awaits approval... (when people complain we can re-enable that)

Are there any more people who want to do the moderation? It is no problem to have
2 or more people doing that. (Just share the pwd, and add the email address)

I personally can not take this responsebility since there is too much time I 
am not able to do this.  But I remember more people volenteering.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                           zander@planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be

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