On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> wrote: > I won't reply to the obvious spam to hilight it any further, so new > message.. > > Could the mailing list moderator that approved the "client list" message > identify themselves and possibly explain how that was seen as a valid > message about the development of Apache Cassandra?
TL;DR That would be me. My policy in moderating this list has always been to ignore the obvious spam, and default to letting everything else through. IMO, to apply judgment beyond that is a very slippery slope. Transparency and openness are more important to me than protecting everyone from the occasional false-positive spam and/or possibly off-topic message. I also bang through the messages in the queue pretty quickly and make the Obvious Spam -or- not judgement almost reflexively. In this case, I guess the lack of HTML, images, or attachments, along with the presence of words like "Datastax", and "client" triggered a snap Not Spam reaction and I sent it through. But at least some of the reaction here seems to extend beyond a simple matter of a spam message on the list (that has happened before); Some here seem to be reacting out of concern to the very existence of the email, which makes me think it's precisely the sort of thing that shouldn't be kept hidden. -- Eric Evans john.eric.ev...@gmail.com
