Hi, I'm currently moderating regularly the pkg-gnome-maintainers (under other). This is a short summary of how I do it, in case you wonder why some mail never reacehd the list.
1/ moderation tool I'm using the web interface of Mailman on the alioth site to do the moderation. I poll it regularly since I don't get any notice of pending mails to moderate. The list of messages to moderate is presented in the "pending administrative requests" page, and offers a list of possible actions on presented messages with the following information: - reason of request - subject of message - headers and beginning of message 2/ moderation criteria Until now, I saw messages waiting in the moderation pool for the following reasons: - strange header - message too big - too many recipients I've configured the header X-Spam-Level: \*\*\* to be a filtering criteria, messages of SpamAssassin Spam Level >= 3.0 will be moderated. I've raised the message size limit from the default or 40 KB to 60. 3/ moderation decision In the suspicious header case, I read the subject of the message, and when it isn't enough I read headers and the beginning of the message to decide whether this is spam. It usually is, and is discarded, when it isn't I accept the message. When the message is too big, I would like to strip the message of big attachments or superfluous text, replaced by an administrative note. I can only do this if I receive a copy of the message, and this is not the case by default. In the past, I sent a copy of the message to my mail address to strip the parts as explained, but these forwards didn't reach me for a while now, so I've given up this technique. These messages are discarded too. Finally, in the case too many recipients are listed, I double-clech whether the body is spam or not and take a decision accordingly. I hope the above is clear, let me know if I can improve the process or if I should clarify some parts. Bye, -- Lo�c Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
