[License-discuss] Moderator Advice

[Simon Phipps]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Lawrence Rosen (lrosen at rosenlaw.com)i, who I think was
> addressing this question to Simon Phipps:
>
> > I dislike mailman defaults. Why are you moderating my emails at all?
> > Or John Cowan's? Or Henrik Ingo's?
>
> I think there's some confusion here caused by inexact wording and the
> word 'moderated' having overloaded meanings:
>

I now regret expending volunteer effort trying to help Mr Rosen & others
avoid delays getting their deep wisdom disseminated.


> Simon Philpps (part of a group of OSI listadmins) mentioned having to
> appprove several recent postings from the listadmin queue that were held
> because of 'too many recipients'.  The Mailman default setting for this
> item ('Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting', on
> page Privacy Options, Recipient Filters) is 10, though in practice the
> filter seems to trigger on a slightly lower number of recipients.
>
> I infer that Simon, when he spoke of having to 'moderate through'
> postings, meant merely ones that landed in the listadmin queue.  He was
> quite correctly and very benignly giving people advice on how to avoid
> the admin queue.
>
> license-discuss appears to not set any subscriber's 'moderated' flag by
> default -- which again is GNU Mailman's default configuration.  So, I
> strongly suspect that you (Lawrence), and John, and Henrik, do _not_
> have that flag set.  (IMO:) Smart list administration, like smart system
> administration, aspires to automate, to limit manual exception-handling to
> a bare minimum.
>

Exactly, thanks for the explanation.

S.
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