On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:10:21PM +0800, Cai Qian wrote: > å 2005-03-09äç 19:56 -0600ïMing Huaåéï > > > To caiqian: Yes, both debian-chinese-gb and debian-chinese-big5 are > > moderated list, so all mails you sent to the list are sent to moderators > > first and waits for manual approval. That's the reason of the delay. > > > > I am probably the only active moderator for debian-chinese-gb list now. > > So as you can imagine, there is certain to be some delay. To make > > things worse, I am living in US, which has a 14 hour timezone difference > > than China, so the peak traffic for the list is likely to happen when I > > am sleeping. :-( > > > I see, but I don't think it is a good idea to approve mails manually. > Especially you are in the different timezone. You can't make sure you > are there all the time.
Well, I can't think of any better way than manually approve mails for moderation. As for the decision of making -gb a moderated list, it's to solve the spam problem in this list. Please look at the archives for 2003 to see how this list looks like unmoderated. Please also see bug #165385 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165385) for the discussion leading to moderation, and bug #229912 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229912) for the attempt to revive the list and leads to the current situation (subscriber post only was proposed, but it was settled on moderation and adding moderators). If you have better ideas, please propose them. As for the delay of moderation, there are currently 10 moderators, and except [EMAIL PROTECTED], I believe 9 of them speaks Chinese. But sadly, as I've said, I am the only active moderator now. If you think it's a good idea to get more moderators, maybe we can ask for help on the list. > I don't know much about how to effectively detect spams. But I see there > are lots of rules to detect Chinese spam, maybe you can get them and > have a try. Otherwise I suppose there is a need to add at least one > addition moderator to reduce the delay. Well, as a moderator I can't change any list configurations. That's the work of list-masters, and I am not even a DD (so I can't even SEE the configurations). I always welcome more moderators (if it's easy for the list masters to implement, and maybe remove unactive moderators), would you voluteer to be one? Ming 2005.03.10
