Author: linus Date: 2008-01-27 13:50:54-0800 New Revision: 14065 Modified: trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml
Log: Added instructions for the moderator of a mailing list. Modified: trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml Url: http://argouml.tigris.org/source/browse/argouml/trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml?view=diff&rev=14065&p1=trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml&p2=trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml&r1=14064&r2=14065 ============================================================================== --- trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml (original) +++ trunk/documentation/cookbook/process.xml 2008-01-27 13:50:54-0800 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- $Id$ --> <!-- -// Copyright (c) 1996-2007 The Regents of the University of California. All +// Copyright (c) 1996-2008 The Regents of the University of California. All // Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this // software and its documentation without fee, and without a written // agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice @@ -1477,6 +1477,95 @@ </itemizedlist> </sect1> + <sect1 id="mailing-list-moderating"> + <title>Moderation of a mailing list</title> + + <para> +When a mail is sent to one of the argouml mailing lists and +it is not automatically approved, it is sent to the moderator +for approval. +</para> + <para> +The moderator approves or rejects it by sending a mail to +one of the mail addresses in the mail he receives. +</para> + <para> +If the moderator rejects the mail, a message can be sent to the +original poster. +</para> + <sidebar> + <para> +Here is a suggestion of such a message that Linus Tolke uses on the +argouml dev list: +</para> + <para> +%%% Start comment +</para> + <para> +Hello! +</para> + <para> +You have written a mail to the ArgoUML dev list. +This mail was not automatically approved by the mailing list mechanism +but instead sent to me, the moderator, for approval. +Most likely, this is because you are not subscribed to the list or +the from field of the sent mail was different from the mail address +that is subscribed to the list so +the list mechanism don't consider you as subscribed. +</para> + <para> +As a moderator, I assume that this was a misstake. +Either +a misstake to send the mail to the list in the first place +since the list don't accept mails from non-subscribers, or +a misstake in using the incorrect from address. +For this reason I have not approved you mail for the mailing list. +If the misstake was that you had forgot to subscribe, +please subscribe and resend the mail. +If the misstake was that you used the incorrect from address, +please resend the mail using the correct from address. +</para> + <para> +If this is not a misstake, +I assume that this is because +you are subscribed to the mailing list with one mail address and +wants to (or has to) send mails using another. +This is possible, however some special allowing is possible. +If this is the case, please send me a mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] explaining this and including your +two mail addresses, and then send the mail immediately again. +Then I will approve the mail and allow your mail address so +that future postings will go through immediately. +</para> + <para> +There are two reasons for not allowing posts to the list +without being a member. +The first one is from a spam fighting perspecting. +The ArgoUML mailing lists attract a fair amount of commercial messages and +scams that we don't want to resend to all list members. +The second one is that answers to your postings on the list +are always sent back to the list. +Unless you are a member you will miss it. + +For this reason, +if you become a member on the list just to send a single mail, +please linger on the list for a couple of weeks to receive any +answers or follow-ups to your mail. +</para> + <para> +I hope that you accept the policy and the measure taken by me, +the moderator and wish you welcome to the ArgoUML project and +the dev mailing list for developers of ArgoUML. +</para> + <para> + /Linus, moderator of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list +</para> + <para> +%%% End comment +</para> +</sidebar> + </sect1> + </chapter> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
